James A. Michener Short Quotes

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For some time now they had been suspicious of him.

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It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.

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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

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Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

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Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.

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I had been sent to Mexico to cover a murder, one of a remarkable kind.

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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

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A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

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

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The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

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I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

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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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He had obtained a clearer view of his homeland by leaving it and seeing it through the eyes of others.

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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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Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

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Look, son, if you calculate on getting me drunk and outsmarting me, quit now, because you simply can't do it.

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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

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A Pole is a man born with a sword in his right hand, a brick in his left. When the battle is over, he starts to rebuild.

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It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

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On a bleak wintry morning some years ago I was summoned to the office of our naval attache at the American embassy in Kabul.

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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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On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

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

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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

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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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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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The crucial Battle of Zamość, which is not stressed in most current histories because it involved a Polish-Russian battle in which the Poles won.

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Scientists are men who dream about doing things. Engineers do them... if you want to be an engineer but find you have ten thumbs, you become a scientist.

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Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

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