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" I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope. "
James Salter
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" There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to traveling. It's not a question of meeting or seeing new faces particularly, or hearing new stories, but of looking at life in a different way. It's the curtain coming up on another act. "
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" I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it's disheartening; you don't want to go on. That's what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done. "
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" If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time. "
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" In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural. "
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" I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type. "
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" You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable. "
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" It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those. "
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" West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view. "
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" On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing. "
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" I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling. "
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" The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child. "
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" If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You'll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you're really writing. "
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" I don't fear death. I'm not obsessed with it the way everybody else seems to be. "
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" A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away. "
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" I've always said that I felt women are more heroic. "
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" Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you. "
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" Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots. "
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" There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. "
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" I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. "
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" Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. "
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" The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another. "
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" My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book. "
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" 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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