"Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state…" — James Salter

"Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer."

— James Salter

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63 Quotes by James Salter

James Salter has 63 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving…
You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped…
Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only?…
Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which…
Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A…
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have…
Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the…
It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through…
I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to…
We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...

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More Enthusiasm Quotes

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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work… — James A. Baldwin
Enthusiasm moves the world. — Arthur Balfour
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. — Arthur Balfour
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. — Bruce Barton
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. — Ambrose Bierce
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic… — Ray Bradbury
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. — Charlotte Bronte
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on… — Alton Brown
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against… — Leo Buscaglia
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself… — Dale Carnegie

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