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James Salter
12 quotes
“The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.'”
James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“France is herself Only in the winter, her naked self, without manners. In the fine weather, all the world can love her.”
James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.”
James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.”
James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...she is simply the living portion of the meal.”
James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He nestles himself flat in the meeting of her buttocks. An excruciating douche.”
James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As his prick goes into her, he discovers the world. He knows the source of numbers, the path of the stars.”
James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have never been able to write the story. I reach a certain point and cannot go on. The death of kings can be recited, but not of one’s child.”
James Salter (1925–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source