James A. Michener - Love Quotes

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James A. Michener

You love the Hawaiians as potential Christians, but you despise them as people. I am proud to say that I have come to exactly the opposite conclusion, and it is therefore appropriate that I should be expelled from a mission where love is not.

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