Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESYoung 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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