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Quote by Henry James
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a ce

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James

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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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People can die of mere imagination. – Geoffrey Chaucer

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Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like The Grudge, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days. – Vanessa Hudgens

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Its just a way of trying to get to a third thing thats not particular to any quote-unquote genre. Its been great for me its really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. Its very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting. – Charlie Hunter

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. – Gaston Bachelard

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