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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.

— James A. Michener On a heroine in Tales of the South Pacific (1947)

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

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

On the heroines of Tales of the South Pacific (1947)

If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you’re typing faster than your mind is working.

Until you've seen Zimbabwe, you live in darkness.

The Covenant (1980)

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Space (1982)

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