Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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