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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
James A. Michener
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James A. Michener
Age: 90 †
Born: 1907
Born: February 3
Died: 1997
Died: October 16
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James Albert Michener
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I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
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Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.
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I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.
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America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.
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In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.
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If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
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I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.
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Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.
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A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.
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No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.
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The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.
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a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
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If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography.
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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
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The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
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