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 JAMESI mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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The 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.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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