Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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