Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
More Henry James Quotes
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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