James Salter Quotes
The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I am healthy and happy.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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A role model for me is somebody who is really empathetic and has a calm strength to them. Sometimes you meet random people and they're really inspiring because they seem wise; they've gone through things.
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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
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So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.
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The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
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The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
