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 JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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