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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I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.
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Ball is made of leather, leather comes from cows, cows eat grass, and there is where the ball must be.
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In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
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My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb garlic blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.
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All people have their own special skills. Instead of just identifying deficiencies, schools should try to identify and promote those special skills as early on as possible.
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Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
