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Henry Green was the pen name of Henry Vincent Yorke (29 October 1905 – 13 December 1973), an English author best remembered for the novels Party Going, Living and Loving. He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952.

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

Highlight, Highlights, Leave, Secret

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.

Alive, Art, Course, Hopes, Purpose, Separate

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

Age, Birthday, Ceases, Digest, Fifty

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

Approaches, Cow, Cowboy, Cows, Good, Way

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.

Appeal, Draw, Feelings, Intimacy, Long, Night

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

Apt, Goes On, Laughing, Make, Reader, Reading

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

Art, Live, Miracle, Person, Should

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.

Doubt, Hated, Income, Incomes, Public, School

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