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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 Burning the Days (1997)

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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.

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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.

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

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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)

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