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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

Other quotes by Henry James

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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Tact, Tactfulness
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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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Summer
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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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Henry James
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Other Quotes from
Exile
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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – Cyril Connolly

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Exile

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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Exile

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

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Exile

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggars smile from the scorn of free men. – Jose Marti

Category:
Exile

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I dont actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination. – Reeve Carney

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Imagination

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our peoples democratic order and the power of the working class. – Janos Kadar

Category:
Anger

Being a Barrymore didnt help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me. – Drew Barrymore

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Family

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. Youd be amazed how many companies dont listen to their customers. – Ross Perot

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Business