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 JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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