Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMES
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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