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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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
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Nature admits no lie.
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Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
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I like to be human and not lose myself in becoming a mannequin, which people in showbiz are accused of.
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People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
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This is basically just a free front yard for them.
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In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
