I can no longer take war or promotion or big income or a large house seriously. I reject empire and Vietnam and placing a man on the moon. I deny time payments and looking like the girl next door and church weddings and a great deal more. If you want to blame such rejection on grass, you can do so. I charge it to awakening.
James A. MichenerIf your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
James A. MichenerScientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
James A. Michenera soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
James A. MichenerTag: chance battle poland soldier black-swan michener
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
James A. MichenerThe permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
James A. MichenerCharacter consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries
James A. MichenerRampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
James A. MichenerTag: history war civilization europe poland
[Very rich people] with brains make a great effort to hold on to every penny they have while preaching to the general population that freedom and dignity and patriotism are possible only under their protection; in this way they elicit the support of the very people they hold in subjection.
James A. MichenerPublic libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.
James A. MichenerTag: libraries knowledge society civilization
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