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	"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself." - -- James a. michener

Top 5 quotes from James a. michener

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
"I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters."
"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

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