James Salter Quotes
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
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The most magnificent creature in the entire world, the tiger is.
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My tomb shall bless and speak to the needs of my devotees.
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Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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...his mother was very old, and his father was no longer alive - hence there cannot be another Kapil Dev!
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I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.
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I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.
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No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that's plutonium.
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In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
