Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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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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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.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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