Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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 are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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