Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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