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James A. Michener. Chybí nám detailnější popis autora.

✵ 3. únor 1907 – 16. říjen 1997  •  Další jména جیمز ای میچنر
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James A. Michener: 56 citátů6 lajků

James A. Michener citáty a výroky

„Jestliže v cizině odmítáte místní stravu, neberete na vědomí zvyky, bojíte se náboženství a vyhýbáte se lidem, měli byste raději zůstat doma.“

James A. Michener

James A. Michener: Citáty anglicky

“Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.”

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James A. Michener kniha Poland

page 361
Poland (1983)

“He had obtained a clearer view of his homeland by leaving it and seeing it through the eyes of others.”

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James A. Michener kniha Poland

page 571
Poland (1983)

“…organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.”

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James A. Michener kniha Poland

page 587
Poland (1983)

“On a bleak wintry morning some years ago I was summoned to the office of our naval attache at the American embassy in Kabul.”

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James A. Michener Caravans

Caravans (1963) First lines

“Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don't portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.”

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James A. Michener

Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

“Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.”

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"A Spelunker in the Caves of History" in Modern Maturity (August 1985)

“A Pole is a man born with a sword in his right hand, a brick in his left. When the battle is over, he starts to rebuild.”

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James A. Michener kniha Poland

Poland (1983)

“In a small Polish farm community, during the fall planting season of 1981, events occurred which electrified the world, sending reverberations of magnitude to capitals as diverse as Washington, Peking and especially Moscow.”

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James A. Michener kniha Poland

First lines
Poland (1983)

“I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.”

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James A. Michener

CNN obituary (17 October 1997) http://www.cnn.com/US/9710/16/michener.obit/

“A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.”

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James A. Michener

On the heroines of Tales of the South Pacific (1947) in Commercial Appeal (31 December 1951)

“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”

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As quoted in The Observer (26 November 1989)

“Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door.”

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James A. Michener kniha Centennial

Centennial (1974) First lines

“The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east.”

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James A. Michener kniha Caribbean

Caribbean (1989) First lines

“In 1948 I addressed some students at Washington and Lee University, and in the question-answer period one young man observed with asperity, "But it's easy for you to write. You've traveled."”

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James A. Michener kniha Return to Paradise

Return to Paradise (1951) First lines

“The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.”

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James A. Michener

As quoted in "The Michener Phenomenon" by Caryn James in The New York Times (8 September 1985)

“About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.”

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James A. Michener kniha Alaska

Alaska (1988) First lines

“Therefore, men of Polynesia and Boston and China and Mount Fuji and the barrios of the Philippines, do not come to these islands empty-handed, or craven in spirit, or afraid to starve. There is no food here. In these islands there is no certainty. Bring your own food, your own gods, your own flowers and fruits and concepts. For if you come without resources to these islands you will perish… On these harsh terms the islands waited.”

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James A. Michener kniha Hawaii

Hawaii (1959)

“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.”

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On a heroine in Tales of the South Pacific (1947) in Commercial Appeal (31 December 1951)

“No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.”

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James A. Michener kniha Hawaii

Hawaii (1959)

“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.”

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James A. Michener kniha The World Is My Home

The World Is My Home (1991)

“In later years, it would become fashionable to say of the missionaries, "They came to the islands to do good, and they did right well." Others made jest of the missionary slogan, "They came to a nation in darkness; they left it in light," by pointing out: "Of course they left Hawaii lighter. They stole every goddamned thing that wasn't nailed down."”

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James A. Michener kniha Hawaii

Hawaii (1959)

“…the crucial Battle of Zamość, which is not stressed in most current histories because it involved a Polish-Russian battle in which the Poles won.”

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James A. Michener kniha Poland

Poland (1983)

“[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.”

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James A. Michener kniha Poland

page 591
Poland (1983)

“Youth is truth.”

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James A. Michener kniha The Drifters

The Drifters (1971) First lines