It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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