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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.
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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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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A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
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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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I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I happened to get straight A's and be pretty good in sports. But I had no great vision of what I could be. And I never had any yearning.
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You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
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A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.
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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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The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
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It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.
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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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When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.
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