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James Salter
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You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.
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Amplitude is a powerful quality in fiction. It results in involvement, in sympathy with the characters. After a while, a reader can't avoid being involved with a book, caring about it, even if it's not a particularly good book. You're in it, and you're committed to it.
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You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true.
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The normal economic system works itself.
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I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
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Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave
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Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.
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Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.
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If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time.
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I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
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The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.
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One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.
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Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.
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A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your appeal doesn't last long and you're quickly discarded.
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Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.
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Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.
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But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.
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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.
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Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.
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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.
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