Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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