Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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