Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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