James Michener

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    If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let’s all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
    Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928)

    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)