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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMES

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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES

Heart Human Know Last never Say
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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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.
HENRY JAMES

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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMES

All Experience Life Mistakes
Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Almost Come Great Leave Over Roll Smother Sorrow Us Wave
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Help Humanity More Nothing Respect Shadow
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.’
HENRY JAMES

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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
HENRY JAMES

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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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Better Course Every Good Idea Interfuse More Picture Story
I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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