"He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes."

-- Percy Ross

“A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dreaming" time.”
“I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.”
“Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex.”
“In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?”
“I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.”
“She had breast cancer. No one said she shouldn't run for governor.”
“Certain things I remember exactly as they were. They are merely discolored a bit by time, like coins in the pocket of a forgotten suit. Most of the details, though, have long since been transformed or rearranged to bring others of them forward. Some, in fact, are obviously counterfeit; they are no less important. One alters the past to form the future.”

Source : James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”
“He's going to learn the hard way. Hopefully he changes his mentality quick.”

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