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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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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 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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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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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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A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.
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In six pages, I can't even say Hello.
James A. Michener
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out.
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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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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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I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.
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I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish I could be part Negro I could be Irish I could be Russian. I am spiritually a mix anyway, but I did have a solid childhood fortunately, because of some wonderful women who brought me up. I never had a father or a man in the house, and that was a loss...
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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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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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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 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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All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.
James A. Michener
I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?
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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 think the bottom line is that if you get through a childhood like mine, it's not at all bad. Obviously, you come out a pretty tough turkey, and you have had all the inoculations you need to keep you on a level keel for the rest of your life. The sad part is, most of us don't come out.
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