Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESThe success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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