Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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The 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.
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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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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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