"Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people."

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Source : FaceBook post by James Salter from Mar 05, 2017

James Salter

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.”
“Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.”

Source : Karen Cushman (1996). “The Ballad of Lucy Whipple”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8.”
“No one feels anotherâ€™s grief...”
“The image itself is kind of the least important factor to me, though I'm still interested in putting forth an interesting image. I see the image as the screen laid over top of what really interests me, which is that depth of surface and that filmic quality that it has when you pass the piece. The idea that my pieces look like paintings, but are most definitely not, is really interesting to me.”
“Yeah, we wouldn't want to lose our little Mockingjay when she's finally begun to sing.”
“In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.”
“Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.”

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