"In 1957, I decided: write or perish." — James Salter

"In 1957, I decided: write or perish."

— 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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God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for… — Drew Barrymore
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. — George Ade
Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. — Ambrose Bierce
You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The… — Joe Biden
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. — Theodor Adorno
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I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I… — Mary J. Blige
People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided… — Usain Bolt
I have decided not to run for president. — John Bolton

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