Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESIt 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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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