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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
Henry James
I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
Henry James
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.
Henry James
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
Henry James
One can't judge till one's forty before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry James
Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
Henry James
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
Henry James
One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Henry James
Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
Henry James
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
Henry James
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
Henry James
