"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."

-- James Salter

#Oxygen Quotes #Vacuums Quotes #Steel Quotes

“The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.”
““Do you deny it?” Grimani persisted. “That you went to Marchese Rinaldo's room to ask him about your notebook?” “Deny it? Only the greatest selfrestraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance.””

Source : "The Devil in Music: Julian Kestrel #4".
“I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.”
“The point isnâ€™t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.”
“The most persistent of all attractive illusions in our country may be that racism can be ended by one single blow.”
“Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.”
“Only do the thing we are best at doing and enjoy most.”
“Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.”

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