Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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