True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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