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The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.
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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Military Officer
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New York City
New York
James Albert Michener
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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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Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.
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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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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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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.
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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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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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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
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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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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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You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
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All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
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Writers turn dreams into print.
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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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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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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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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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A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.
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