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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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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I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
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The 'passion for incredulity' can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
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But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
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I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me.
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Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
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I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.
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In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
