However British you may be, I am more British still.
HENRY JAMES
Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I 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.
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