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

Other quotes by Henry James

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James

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Coffee (or Tea)
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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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Women
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if youre nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James

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alone
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily. – Juliette Gordon Low

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Imagination

Theres just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you cant know it all, and thats where imagination can work. – Geraldine Brooks

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Imagination

I write from my imagination, not from what Ive read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. – Dirk Benedict

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Imagination

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that its real. – Joel Kinnaman

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Imagination

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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama. – J. M. Roberts

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gardening

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderers life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered persons family. – Dennis Prager

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Family

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. – Orison Swett Marden

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Money

So Ive seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody elses airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasnt in – 21 years ago, then Id think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that Id like to fly on. – Richard Branson

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Experience