Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESI mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
More Henry James Quotes
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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