Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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