Tao Te Ching
James Michener
1907 – 1997 CE
Historical and Generational Saga Master
Inspired storyteller of the human spirit, Michener created some of our most memorable fictional characters. Often writing for 12-15 hours a day for weeks and weeks, he created books that became best-sellers, movies, Broadway musicals, TV series, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. Because these books were so carefully researched, they became one of the more popular ways of learning about certain historical periods and peoples.
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Unlisted Sources
Chesapeake (1978)
Hawaii (1959)
Interview (1991)
Space (1982)
The World Is My Home (1991)
Quotes by James Michener (10 quotes)
“[Pearl Buck] was a spokesman on all sorts of issues: freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the adoptability of disadvantaged children, the future of China, especially the battle for women's rights, for education. If you followed in her trail, as I did, you were put in touch with almost every major movement in the United States — intellectual, social, and political.”
from Interview (1991)
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“I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.”
from The World Is My Home (1991)
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“I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behavior of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson — the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.”
from The World Is My Home (1991)
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“I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.”
from The World Is My Home (1991)
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“everyone growing up faces differential opportunities... differential experiences that you don't look for, that you don't plan for, but, boy, you better not miss them. The things that make you bigger than you are. The things that give you a vision. The things that give you a challenge.”
from Interview (1991)
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“I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known... I don't know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish... I am spiritually a mix anyway... So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.”
from Interview (1991)
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“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
from Space (1982)
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“No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.”
from Hawaii (1959)
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“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”
from Chesapeake (1978)
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“The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.”
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Quotes about James Michener (1 quotes)
“I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known... I don't know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish... I am spiritually a mix anyway... So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.”
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