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Book: Hawaii
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire.
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
how small he was and how wormy in manner,
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before.
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did it establish its right to exist.
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
Why is it, Reverend Hale, that we must always laugh at our book, but always revere yours?"
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
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 _ Hawaii
This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it … in an evil way.
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth.
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James A. Michener _ Hawaii
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure."
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