Jamesian B Quotes

#1. We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

C.S. Lewis

#2. I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

Edmund White

#3. Learning what to want is the most radical, the most painful and the most creative art of life.

Geoffrey Vickers

#4. There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.

Stephen King

#5. If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Alison Jackson

#6. I'm excited for the new crop of gay comics who have never been closeted, who never thought that they needed to put on a dress to tell a joke, and it's exciting.

Guy Branum

#7. A further, albeit more complex, possibility is that our conscious selves might suffer from characteristic uncertainty about our true values, and gather information about them from choices we make (the Jamesian: "How do I know what I like until I see what I pick").

Tali Sharot

#8. When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

Liberace