“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
― James A. Michener, quote from Space
“Always remember, John, that you and I live on a minor planet attached to a minor star, at the far edge of a minor galaxy. We live here briefly, and when we’re gone, we’re forgotten. And one day the galaxies will be gone, too. The only morality that makes sense is to do something useful with the brief time we’re allotted.”
― James A. Michener, quote from Space
“Keep your eye on the simple problems. Solve them, and everything else falls into place.”
― James A. Michener, quote from Space
“Don’t ever buy Monks Fishing, Stanley.”
― James A. Michener, quote from Space
“Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had applied for cards at the free library.”
― James A. Michener, quote from Space
James A. Michener
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date February 3, 1907
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“They seem to be a doomed people. The curse of a people calling themselves Christian, seems to follow them everywhere;”
― Richard Henry Dana Jr., quote from Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.”
― Nikki Gemmell, quote from The Bride Stripped Bare
“One reason that Americans as a people became nostalgic about the fifties more than twenty-five years later was not so much that life was better in the fifties (though in some ways it was), but because at the time it had been portrayed so idyllically on television.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Fifties
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
― Lewis Thomas, quote from The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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