A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Author: Henry James
Ideas are in truth force.
Ideas are in truth force.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Money's a horrid thing to follow but a charming thing to meet.
Money's a horrid thing to follow but a charming thing to meet.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Experience is never limited and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Experience is never limited and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
In art economy is always beauty.
In art economy is always beauty.