Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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