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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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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

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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

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Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. – Les Baxter

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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! – Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. – Felix Bloch

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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. – Anne Sullivan Macy

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If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already. – Paul Ryan

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The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn. I started going for long lone country walks among the spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end, giving myself up to the earth-scents and the sky-winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul. – Monica Baldwin, I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-Eig

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A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. Its the same qualities I require from a man. – Catherine Deneuve

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