To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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