James A. Michener - Life Quotes

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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.

James A. Michener
Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.

James A. Michener
For this is the journey that men make: to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find: Money, position, fame, many loves, revenge are all of little consequence, and when the tickets are collected at the end of the ride they are tossed into the bin marked FAILURE. But if a man happens to find himself... then he has found a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

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.

James A. Michener
The Luna broke away to start its descent to what Tucker Thompson had told his readers was "the dark and dangerous chasm in which unknown forces threaten the life of any trespasser." Dr. Mott, reading the report in Folks, growled, "The basic forces are identical with those which govern Brooklyn. Only the landscape is different."

James A. Michener