Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESThe success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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