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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There were a lot of misperceptions that Sci Fi was for men: that it was for young men, and that it was for geeky young men. We had to broaden the channel to change the misconceptions of the genre.
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Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.
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Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
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A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
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In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
