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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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.
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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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Always keep a window in the attic open not just cracked: open.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I always want to know the things one shouldn't do. So as to do them? asked her aunt. So as to choose. said Isabel
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
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My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.
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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.
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The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
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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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It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
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Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
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I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
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And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
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Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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