Quote by James Michener
America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only t

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

Other quotes by James Michener

An age is called “dark,” not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it. – James Michener

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

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

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Other Quotes from
America
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Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers – Jean Baudrillard

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If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. – Will Rogers

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America

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. – Walter Lippman

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America

Sometimes, being an American is a spectator sport. – Terri Guillemets

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America

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I still like the relationship part of any story. You dont want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself. – Lisa Gardner

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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? – John W. Foster

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump

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