Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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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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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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