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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMES

Close Detail Make Pulse Rhythm Selection Short Story Succinct Tremendous Very
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMES

Lucky Right Time
The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
HENRY JAMES

Art Certain Degree Enlargement Experience Illusion Live Make Measure Mind Miraculous Produce Succes Work
If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMES

Emotion Feel Love Overrated Respect
It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
HENRY JAMES

Deep Depression Downward Earthward Easier Failure Feeling Freer Live Other Realm Restriction Sound
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMES

Abbreration Adjective Born Fool Literature Sugar
Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMES

Allow Defence Everyone Everything Judge Truth Yourself
We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
HENRY JAMES

Art Dark Doubt Give Madness Passion Task Work
I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMES

Again Effort Old Own Page Scare Struggle Take Unforgettable
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES

Heart Human Know Last never Say
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMES

Bleed Butchery Corpse Necessary Perform
You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

Because Life Love Must Part Save Simply
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.
HENRY JAMES

Age Agree Axcess Chilled Embrace Occasion Possibility Regret Responsive Single Think
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Care Happen Know Only People Proportion
Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMES

Anything Change Different might never Thing Wait
I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
HENRY JAMES

End Give Interesting Meet More Myself Out People Possess Somehow Tenth Vastly

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