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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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The germ, wherever gathered, has ever been for me, the germ of a story, and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.
Henry James
If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
Henry James
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
Henry James
No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!
Henry James
I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Henry James
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
Henry James
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
Henry James
What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?
Henry James
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Henry James
I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
Henry James
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
Henry James
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James
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
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
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.
Henry James
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
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
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
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!
Henry James
You think too much.' 'I suppose I do but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.
Henry James
