Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.

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Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

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I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

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As he was with all women he knew 'personally' . . . or respected even a little bit.

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