Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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