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 JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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