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Henry James
Geburtstag: 15. April 1843
Todesdatum: 28. Februar 1916
Henry James war ein amerikanisch-britischer Schriftsteller. Er war der jüngere Bruder des Philosophen William James.
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„Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.“
— Henry James, buch The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XXIII.
„We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.“
— Henry James, buch The Middle Years
The Middle Years (1893).
„He is outside of everything, and an alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.“
— Henry James
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Library of the World's Best Literature, vol. XII (1897), ed. Charles Dudley Warner.
„Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.“
— Henry James, buch The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XVI.
„Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.“
— Henry James, buch Washington Square
„Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.“
— Henry James
Overheard by his nephew, Billy James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).
„Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.“
— Henry James
Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.
„I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.“
— Henry James
Letter to Miss M. Betham Edwards (5 January 1912).
