In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESCriticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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