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From Quotes by Henry James
- Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.
- The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from…
- The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand…
- The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition…
- The image of the presence, whatever it was, waiting there for him to go -this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves…
- The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and…
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it…
- Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks,…
- Things are always different from what they might be.
- It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from…
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