James A. Michener

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• Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

  Chesapeake (1978)

  • Virtue

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

  • America

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

  • Writing

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy