"You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true."

-- James Salter

“Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.”

Source : "World reacts to Mideast agreement". www.cnn.com. October 23, 1998.
“Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted a sense of a future. So do they. So does the reader. But perhaps I shouldn't speak for everyone when I say that love and happiness are interdependent. In my own experience, happiness came with love. Specifically, my wife. That's when my own apathy and stasis ended for good.”
“A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.”
“The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.”
“Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird”
“Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?”
“My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.”

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