Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESThe success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
More Henry James Quotes
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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