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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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America
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Henry James
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. – Rhona Mitra

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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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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. – Author Unknown

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