There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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