Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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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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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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In art economy is always beauty.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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