James Salter Quotes

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

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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If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

Jim Talent

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Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

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Some men are much more self-sufficient than others.

John McCain

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Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

Ann Hood

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I looked into putting 'Doctor' on my license. But the insurance premium is higher, so I don't think I'll bother.

John Tiffany

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My mother was a Tibetan Buddhist.

Amber Mark

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In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Stefan Zweig

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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

Robert Dale Owen

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I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

Ronnie Spector

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If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.

Jon Secada

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As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

Dennis C. Blair

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Our officers are on the front lines - the first to show up on the scene of a crime. They should be respected; not ridiculed. They and their families protected; not put at risk.

Doug Ducey

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