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James A. Michener

"There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones."

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"There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones."

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Amber Hurdle

"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

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"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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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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"For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find."
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"The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination."
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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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"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."
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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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"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
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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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"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."
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