James Salter Quotes
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I love bayou life.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
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It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.
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You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
