Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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