Quotes by James A. Michener

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• An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

  ― James A. Michener
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• Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

  ― James A. Michener
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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.

  ― James A. Michener
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• If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

  ― James A. Michener
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Subjects in these quotes:

• nineteenth
• tradition
• complains
• explains
• disdains
• happens

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