Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESI 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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The 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.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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