"West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest -……" — James Salter
"West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view."
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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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I think you have an obligation to be honest.
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