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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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.
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I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.
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Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
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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.
