In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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