Quotes
Authors
James Salter

"The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change oneâ€™s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?"

Source : "Light Years". Book by James Salter, 2011.

James Salter

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“In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.”
“I love doing things people don't expect. The fans will be well fed.”
“Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.”
“I believe that at the beginning of the life of every artist there is some kind of trauma. We have a problem and all of our life we try to speak about this problem. My trauma was historical. When I was three or four, all the friends of my parents were survivors of the Holocaust; they spoke a lot about that. My father was hiding during the war, it was something totally present when I was a boy. It is sure that it has made me.”

Source : "To die is very strange". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.
“I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens.”
“We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly over time. And, frankly, we learned how to listen to ourselves. It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.”

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