"The summer has ended. The garden withers. The……" — James Salter
"The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves."
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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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More Chill Quotes
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit.…
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If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but…
— Tom Brady
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the…
— Kobe Bryant
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer…
— Thomas Carlyle
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One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite…
— David O. McKay
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Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere. He's been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He…
— Gwen Stefani
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A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a…
— Stephen Fry
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
— Unknown Author
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Those who become incoculated with the virus of race hatred are more unfortunate than the victim of it. Race hatred…
— Kelly Miller
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their…
— William Shakespeare
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