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Quote by James Michener
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle

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

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America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. – James 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 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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[G]usto thrives on freedom, and freedom in art, as in life, is the result of a discipline imposed by ourselves. Moreover, any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. – Marianne Moore (1887–1972), lecture, 1948

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Be obscure clearly. – E.B. White

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It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way. – Ernest Hemingway

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The corporate woman has been defined as the liberated woman and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because shes so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power. – Kenny Loggins

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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. – D.H. Lawrence, Pornography and Obscenity

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There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. Thats a beautiful deleveraging. – Ray Dalio

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