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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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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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'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.
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When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.
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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.
