Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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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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