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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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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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
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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.
