James Salter Quotes
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
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Being here: in a particular time and place. That is the existential position with particular implications for literature.
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I am not meet for petty men, the book a boss: They saw not Arthur's virtue beyond the Fort of Glasses. Three score centuries of men stationed on the wall: to speak with its sentinel was not easy. Three fulnesses of Prydwen we went with Arthur, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hindrance.
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Women are socialized to take advantage of four informal options for emotional support: husbands; womenfriends; children; and parents. Men are socialized to take advantage of only one of these informal options: their wife or womanfriend.
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Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747.
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Margaret Sanger: On the contrary, it seems to me that it is more practical and Humane.
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What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.
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Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
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When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.
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Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
