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James Salter Quotes

The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It’s the words that break your heart Picture Quote #1

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, ‘You might do this or that,’ or ‘Why don’t we see more of this.’ I merely took the book and published it Picture Quote #1

It was not until I began to write a book called ‘Light Years’ that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book Picture Quote #1

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope Picture Quote #1

In 1957, I decided: write or perish Picture Quote #1

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish Picture Quote #1

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Dresscodes are for styleless people Picture Quote #1

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing Picture Quote #1

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything Picture Quote #1

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer Picture Quote #1

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality Picture Quote #1

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense Picture Quote #1

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Love must wait; it must break one’s bones Picture Quote #1

He nestles himself flat in the meeting of her buttocks. An excruciating douche Picture Quote #1

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish Picture Quote #1

It’s just that it’s hard to believe in greatness Picture Quote #1

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives Picture Quote #1

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love Picture Quote #1

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It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen Picture Quote #1

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling Picture Quote #1

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality Picture Quote #1

Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening Picture Quote #1

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle Picture Quote #1

Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits Picture Quote #1

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Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one’s own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy Picture Quote #1

Age doesn’t arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth Picture Quote #1

Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept Picture Quote #1

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him Picture Quote #1

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move Picture Quote #1

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others? Picture Quote #1

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The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It’s the words that break your heart. (James Salter Quotes) My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, ‘You might do this or that,’ or ‘Why don’t we see more of this.’ I merely took the book and published it. (James Salter Quotes) It was not until I began to write a book called ‘Light Years’ that an editor really stepped in. The editor was Joe Fox at Random House, and he wound up editing a subsequent book. (James Salter Quotes) I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope. (James Salter Quotes) In 1957, I decided: write or perish (James Salter Quotes) What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish (James Salter Quotes) Dresscodes are for styleless people (James Salter Quotes) I always knew writing a novel was a great thing (James Salter Quotes) Life passes into pages if it passes into anything (James Salter Quotes) Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer (James Salter Quotes) Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality (James Salter Quotes) Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense (James Salter Quotes) Love must wait; it must break one’s bones (James Salter Quotes) He nestles himself flat in the meeting of her buttocks. An excruciating douche (James Salter Quotes) One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish (James Salter Quotes) It’s just that it’s hard to believe in greatness (James Salter Quotes) We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives (James Salter Quotes) I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love (James Salter Quotes) It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen (James Salter Quotes) I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling (James Salter Quotes) The dreams are the skeleton of all reality (James Salter Quotes) Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening (James Salter Quotes) You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle (James Salter Quotes) Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits (James Salter Quotes) Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one longed for, envied, believed in, that was not life. It was what life was seeking; it was a suspension of life. But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one’s own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy (James Salter Quotes) Age doesn’t arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth (James Salter Quotes) Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source from which may be drawn a life more successful, more knowing than our own. Somehow they will do one thing, take one step further, they will see the summit. We believe in it, the radiance that streams from the future, from days we will not see. Children must live, must triumph. Children must die; that is an idea we cannot accept (James Salter Quotes) He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him (James Salter Quotes) As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move (James Salter Quotes) The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others? (James Salter Quotes)

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