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Quote by Henry James
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I wo

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James

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Art
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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Civilization
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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde

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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. – Nadine Gordimer

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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. – Pope Gregory VII

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Exile

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

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I think it was T.S. Eliot who talked about good poetry being felt before its understood. I believe that. There are some bands where I love their lyrics but I dont have a clue what theyre on about. – Marcus Mumford

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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb. – Marge Piercy

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strength

Ronald Reagans well documented final battles with Alzheimers disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought. – William L. Jenkins

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Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. – George Herbert

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