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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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I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect. – Henry James

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Ideas are, in truth, force. – Henry James

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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 dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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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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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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