"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

January 1, 1970

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Said to Hamlin Garland in 1906 and quoted by Garland in Roadside Meetings (1930; reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2005, , ch. XXXVI: Henry James at Rye, p. 461