"He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him."

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Source : FaceBook post by James Salter from Mar 18, 2017

James Salter

#Reading Quotes #Color Quotes #People Quotes

“The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”
“I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.”
“The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
“This body is the seat of all good and bad.”
“All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living”
“No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding the hand of the person they love.”
“I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it. I'm different - when I kidnapped Bill Lawrence's daughter, I cut off all of her fingers before sending my demands so that I wouldn't have to sit there and wait for him to ignore them. We worked things about about nine hours in, which is good because I ate her thumb as a midnight snack.”

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