More From Henry James
- "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."
- "Life is a predicament which precedes death."
- "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
More In Beauty
- "There is a role and function for beauty in our time."― Tadao Ando
- "The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."― James Baldwin
- "My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world."― Rachel McAdams