"The myriad past, it enters us and disappears.……" — James Salter
"The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design."
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James Salter
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63 Quotes by James Salter
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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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One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state…
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In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also…
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Collecting is more than just buying objects.
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
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One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from…
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I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling…
— Julie Andrews
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I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing…
— George Shearing
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun,…
— Francois Magendie
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They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind,…
— Watchman Nee
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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A…
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Collecting all The rains of May The swift Mogami River.
— Matsuo Basho
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For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction:…
— Herman Boerhaave
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