Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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