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James Salter Quotes

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James Salter (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), was an American short story writer and novelist.

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A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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.

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

France is herself Only in the winter, her naked self, without manners. In the fine weather, all the world can love her.

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

He nestles himself flat in the meeting of her buttocks. An excruciating douche.

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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.

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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.

Burning the Days (1997)

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.'

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

...she is simply the living portion of the meal.

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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.

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Salter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.