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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
Explore more quotes by James A. Michener
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
"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."
"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
"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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