Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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