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.
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now." - Henry Green
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."
- Henry Green
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading. - Henry Green
If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in. - Henry Green
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
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. - Henry Green
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 shoul… - Henry Green
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 shoul…
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 s… - Henry Green
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 s…
I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow. - Henry Green
I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. - Henry Green
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.
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