Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESInstead 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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