To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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