Henry Green quotes
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“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
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“To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.”
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“If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.”
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“I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.”
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“After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."”
-- Henry GreenSource : Henry Green (1992). “Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green”, Random House (UK)
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“Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather a gathering web of insinuations ... Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone ...”
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“At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.”
-- Henry GreenSource : Henry Green (1940). “Pack my bag: a self-portrait”
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“The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.”
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“Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.”
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“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.”
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Source : "Face Time | Laura Osnes". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. December 14, 2011.
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“Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.”
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“We're comparing our behind-the-scenes with everybody else's highlight reel.”
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Source : "Q&A: Zach Gilford on 'Nature,' Family and 'Friday Night Lights'". Interview with Breanne L. Heldman, www.mtv.com. December 07, 2012.
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“I like to highlight people's superpowers.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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