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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.

Source: In Letters of Henry James, vol. 4, Introduction, 1984.
-- Henry James, Jr, (Apr 15 1843-1916), English author; He was a master of the psychological novel and innocents abroad motifs, e.g., The Portrait of a Lady, 1881.

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