"Your parents are the parents you know best.……" — James Salter
"Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you."
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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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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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