Henry Green Quotes

• The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

  Henry Green

  Secret, Highlights

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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.

  Henry Green

  Night, Long, Feelings

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• If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

  Henry Green

  Reading, Laughing, Goes On

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• The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

  Henry Green

  Art, Miracle, Should

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• I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

  Henry Green

  Cowboy, Cows, Way

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• After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

  Henry Green

  Birthday, Age, Fifty

  Henry Green (1992). “Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green”, Random House (UK)

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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.

  Henry Green

  Art, Purpose, Alive

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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 Green

  School, Doubt, Income

  Henry Green (1940). “Pack my bag: a self-portrait”

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