| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 30425 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry James (1843–1916), U.S. author. letter, Jan. 16, 1871, to editor and critic Charles Eliot Norton. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | James Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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