"Normally, what you’re envious of is a book,……" — James Salter
"Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things."
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63 Quotes by James Salter
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- 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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