Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESI’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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 hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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