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“One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.” quote by James Salter — Download Open image

“One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.”

James Salter

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It seems to me that literature is giving way a little bit to the immediacy of other diversions, other forms of entertainment. What will it be in fifty years? I don't know. Will there be printed books? Probably, but I'm not sure. There's always going to be literature, though. I believe that. I think literature has a way of getting…

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“Strauss’s, for instance, which begins in the heavens. The artist doesn’t ascend to glory, he appears in it, he already has it and the world is prepared to recognize him. Meteoric, like a comet—those are the phrases we apply, and it’s true, it is a kind of burning. It makes them highly visible, and at the same time it consumes…

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