Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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