He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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