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The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.
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 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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I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.
James A. Michener
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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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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All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
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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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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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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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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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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.
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[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.
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...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.
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Rampaging horsemen can conquer only the city can civilize.
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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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No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.
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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.
James A. Michener
As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.
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The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.
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