In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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