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James Salter Quotes

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows Picture Quote #1

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people Picture Quote #1

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. 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. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer Picture Quote #1

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you Picture Quote #1

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult Picture Quote #1

The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design Picture Quote #1

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There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real Picture Quote #1

Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future Picture Quote #1

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams Picture Quote #1

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t Picture Quote #1

I’m a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible Picture Quote #1

As his prick goes into her, he discovers the world. He knows the source of numbers, the path of the stars Picture Quote #1

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To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth Picture Quote #1

He seems very mournful, but there is all the winter still to be survived. He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights Picture Quote #1

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another Picture Quote #1

You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it’s true Picture Quote #1

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time Picture Quote #1

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change Picture Quote #1

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You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable Picture Quote #1

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that Picture Quote #1

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural Picture Quote #1

I don’t hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don’t like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live Picture Quote #1

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Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows (James Salter Quotes) Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people (James Salter Quotes) One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. 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. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer (James Salter Quotes) Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you (James Salter Quotes) Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult (James Salter Quotes) The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design (James Salter Quotes) There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real (James Salter Quotes) Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future (James Salter Quotes) There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams (James Salter Quotes) My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t (James Salter Quotes) I’m a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible (James Salter Quotes) As his prick goes into her, he discovers the world. He knows the source of numbers, the path of the stars (James Salter Quotes) To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what is written down. Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth (James Salter Quotes) He seems very mournful, but there is all the winter still to be survived. He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights (James Salter Quotes) The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another (James Salter Quotes) You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it’s true (James Salter Quotes) If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time (James Salter Quotes) One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change (James Salter Quotes) You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable (James Salter Quotes) I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that (James Salter Quotes) In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural (James Salter Quotes) I don’t hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don’t like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live (James Salter Quotes)

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