"A light snow, a snow so faint and……" — James Salter
"A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold."
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63 Quotes by James Salter
James Salter has 63 quotes on this site.
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Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving…
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You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped…
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Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only?…
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Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which…
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Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A…
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There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have…
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Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the…
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It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
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There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through…
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I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
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But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to…
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We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...
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More Bodied Quotes
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We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little…
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These other rappers getting bodied and carried away.
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Whatsoever thy birth, thou were a beautiful thought and softly bodied forth.
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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making,…
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From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally…
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In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to…
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a…
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When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best,…
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Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of…
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I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
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