Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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 underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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