Famous quotes containing the words james and/or passed:
“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)