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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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.
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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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There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.
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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
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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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If your business is the right business, then money will never be an issue.
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Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?
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Thom comes in with lots of lyrics, a melody and chords, and usually he strums it on acoustic guitar. we then take it from there and beat it up and arrange it. sometimes they need a lot of arrangement. sometimes they need absolutely nothing. sometimes thom will present a song and it's so obvious how it should be done. those are actually the hardest to do - the ones where we have free scope and it can go in any direction are the easiest ones to do.
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As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
