"There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real."

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Source : James Salter (2016). “The Art of Fiction”, p.64, University of Virginia Press

James Salter

#Dream Quotes #Real Quotes #Writing Quotes

“While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.”
“When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.”
“In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.”
“America doesn't have health insurance.”
“Happiness includes all numbers. It's infinite and eternal.”

Source : Carlos Eire (2010). “Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy”, p.247, Simon and Schuster
“Lenny Breau dazzled me with his extraordinary guitar playing... I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry.”
“[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.”
“I believe all artists, if they are not lying to themselves, must believe that the best part of their work, or even their life, is in front of them. To look only to the past and to say â€˜those were the best years, when I was youngâ€™ is to say that in the future there is nothing.”

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