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All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

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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New York City
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James Albert Michener
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Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.
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The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.
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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
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Rampaging horsemen can conquer only the city can civilize.
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If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.
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The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.
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The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.
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I was once asked if I'd like to meet the president of a certain country. I said, No, but I'd love to meet some sheepherders. The sheepherders, farmers and taxi drivers are often the most interesting people.
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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 chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east
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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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I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
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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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For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.
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Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.
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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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A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
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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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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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