James Salter Quotes

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

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• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Together
  • Change

• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Money
  • Impossible

• I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Play
  • Missing
  • Airplane

• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Human

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Career
  • Night
  • Victory

• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Things
  • Speech
  • Precious

• The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value
  • Nothing
  • Without

• I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Speak
  • Try
  • Just

• The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Done
  • Better
  • Identity

• I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Team
  • Year
  • Injuries

• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Ready

• Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Future
  • Beautiful

• I think people who watch 'Top Gear' think they're the only ones watching it, which I quite like, because it can hopefully last for a long time.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Happy
  • Soul

• It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Writing
  • Books
  • Ever

• I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
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• The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

  

  James Salter
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