Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESJudge everyone and everything for yourself.
More Henry James Quotes
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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