"We are never prepared for what we expect."

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Source : James A. Michener (2014). “Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan”, p.61, Dial Press

James A. Michener

#Preparation Quotes #Prepared Quotes

“I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.”
“Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.”
“It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.”
“Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.”
“Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.”
“For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.”
“I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.”
“Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.”

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