"Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense." — James Salter
"Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense."
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James Salter
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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 Impatient Quotes
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
— Karen Armstrong
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
— John Banville
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown…
— James Buchan
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When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can…
— George Carlin
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I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be…
— Lynda Carter
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but…
— William Ellery Channing
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Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.
— Robin Cousins
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Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.
— Rama Swami
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.
— Drake
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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