Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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In art economy is always beauty.
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