James Salter Quotes

I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be.

James Salter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 10, 1925 - June 19, 2015

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Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who anyone is or what they do.

Jimmy Chin

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I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track.

Amy Goodman

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Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.

Stephenie Meyer

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Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.

Steven Van Zandt

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Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

Jonathan Kozol

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I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

Johnny Marr

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I write about the things I feel strongly about.

Dido Armstrong

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News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Christopher Lasch

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After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Condoleezza Rice

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If you are approachable, if you keep your line of communication open, then very often, you get to hear what you need to hear.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind raising the minimum wage and be clear on where we stand on trade deals.

Pramila Jayapal

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There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Suzy Menkes

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