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Cathey, Robert Andrew, God in Postliberal Perspective: Between Realism and Non-Realism (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009). — Ronald T. Michener

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. — James A. Michener

Only the rocks live forever, Gray Wolf said. — James A. Michener

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow. — James A. Michener

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. — James A. Michener

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

It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth. — James A. Michener

You are real! Everyone has to be different or the world would be really boring. If we all looked the same, then no one could tell us apart. -Janelle — Tara Michener

This is not a promise, this is not threat, it's just the way it's gonna be!!! — James A. Michener

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them. — James A. Michener

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty. — James A. Michener

Wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you. — James A. Michener

I doubt, dearest child, that you could ever marry a Frenchman. They're not dependable. I've never believed that they're serious Catholics." He — James A. Michener

We are never prepared for what we expect. — James A. Michener

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle. — James A. Michener

I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration. — James A. Michener

Writers turn dreams into print. — James A. Michener

You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. — James A. Michener

Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong. — Anna J. Michener

If I were a young man, I would not hesitate at writing anything to get into print, except pornography. — James A. Michener

They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men. — James A. Michener

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years. — James A. Michener

Chesapeake Bay is like a beautiful woman. There's no humiliation from which she cannot recover. — James A. Michener

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. — James A. Michener

Contrary to what people think, I slave over my books. — James A. Michener

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers. — James A. Michener

It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing. — James A. Michener

From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten. — James A. Michener

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My principal flowers will be trees. Because when you plant trees, you're entitled to believe you'll live forever. So — James A. Michener

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. — James A. Michener

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. — James A. Michener

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There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones. — James A. Michener

Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves. — James A. Michener

Don't ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley. — James A. Michener

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall. — James A. Michener

To have courage. To have honor. Is very beautiful. — James A. Michener

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. — James A. Michener

I'm at a camp with over 100 girls 11 to 13 years old, around my own age, and I feel like my parents are my only friends. -Mackenzie — Tara Michener

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect. — James A. Michener

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize. — 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. — James A. Michener

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. — James A. Michener

At last he found the branching stream that flowed down from Blue Valley, and now he was guided by the little stone beaver that climbed the cliff. — James A. Michener

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you. — James A. Michener

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real) — Tara Michener

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you. — James A. Michener

how small he was and how wormy in manner, — James A. Michener

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it. — James A. Michener

First buy a cowboy hat and boots. Then you're on your way to being a Texan. — James A. Michener

If you try it," Whip said, "you'll be thrown out on your inalienable ass. — James A. Michener

I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before. — James A. Michener

It may seem contradictory, but in the languid tropics one spends more time contemplating those great good things of sound and sight and smell. — James A. Michener

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

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure. — James A. Michener

To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne. — James A. Michener

Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class. — James A. Michener

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. — James A. Michener

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. — James A. Michener

(I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living? — James A. Michener

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener

A soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor. — James A. Michener

western paintings did not occur. — James A. Michener

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa. — James A. Michener

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead. — James A. Michener

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center. — James A. Michener

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. — James A. Michener

For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do. — James A. Michener

Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob. — James A. Michener

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick? — James A. Michener

This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it ... in an evil way. — James A. Michener

In six pages, I can't even say Hello. — James A. Michener

Any spot for which a man's forebears have bled and died will forever be his homeland. — James A. Michener

With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home. — James A. Michener

When men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes. — James A. Michener

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it. — James A. Michener

For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find. — James A. Michener

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes. — James A. Michener

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living. — James A. Michener

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis. — James A. Michener

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined. — James A. Michener

The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money. — James A. Michener