"Children are our crop, our fields, our earth.……" — James Salter
"Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept."
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James Salter
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63 Quotes by James Salter
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It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
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I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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