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Time Quotes by James Salter
- Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing…
- Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long…
- There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
- Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit.…
- The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The…
- If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
- There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle