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 JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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