James Michener

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    Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means the affirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
    —James A. Michener (b. 1907)