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Great Quotes by James A. Michener
- I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
- I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm…
- The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
- We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will…
- These are the highlights in a lifetime of following sports. Hilarity. The most sheer fun I ever had in sports was playing volleyball, a game…
- Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
- When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.
- The really great writers are people like Emily Bront who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
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- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
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