I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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