Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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