Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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