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 JAMESJudge everyone and everything for yourself.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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