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A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It's weight will retard growth directly in proportion to the area lied. — Howard L. Salter

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. — James Salter

To them, eternal life begins
And God Himself shall wipe away all tears. — Timothy Salter

You have to keep going. You have to. If you push through this, you'll show them. You'll show them you didn't deserve this. — Aimee L. Salter

People you love should always be more important than people who judge you. — Aimee L. Salter

We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun. — James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything. — James Salter

You have your brains, but it's energy and desire that make you write a book. — James Salter

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed. — James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view. — James Salter

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold. — James Salter

As Rilke says, there are no classes for beginners in life, the most difficult thing is always asked of one right away. — James Salter

There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write. — James Salter

For those we are born to speak to we need prepare nothing, the lines are ready, everything is there. — James Salter

Money is that dear thing which,
if you're not careful, you can squander
your whole life thinking of ... — Mary Jo Salter

Dresscodes are for styleless people. — James Salter

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust. — James Salter

You can't control how other people hurt you, Ashley. But you can control how you hurt yourself. — Aimee L. Salter

He knew all the constellations. He had seen them rise in darkness over heartbreaking coasts. — James Salter

Love must wait; it must break one's bones. — James Salter

Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense. — James Salter

Time is a measurement of our past, present and future. Do you value your time or do you waste it. — Vicki Salter

You don't have anything to lose by standing up for yourself,' Nando said. 'But you can lose yourself by trying to please everyone. — Sydney Salter

Having friends was really important, wasn't it? Even if sometimes they did stuff which upset you? — Helen Salter

The seasons bring to life the living lyre — Timothy Salter

Come gaze about aged churchyard and behold
Those vanish'd hours of lead and hours of gold. — Timothy Salter

It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other. — Anna C. Salter

Narcissists ... have the least sense of self of anybody on the planet. — Anna C. Salter

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives ... — James Salter

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

Humor is probably species specific — Anna C. Salter

Normally, what you're envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels ... almost nonexistent things. — James Salter

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult. — James Salter

You're so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently. — James Salter

Mountains clothed in snow
Robed in white against blue skies
Mirrored in the lake. — Timothy Salter

O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone! — Timothy Salter

In 1957, I decided: write or perish. — James Salter

You are perfectly entitled to invent your life and to claim that it's true. — James Salter

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life. — James Salter

He unrolls names like a splendid carpet. — James Salter

I've made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don't mean overtly, but in terms of response to things. — James Salter

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality. — James Salter

He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights, each one perilous as a lunar journey. He — James Salter

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists. — William Salter

It isn't what happens to you in your life that destroys you. It's what you do about it. — Aimee L. Salter

If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time. — James Salter

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. — James Salter

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing. — James Salter

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. — James Salter

O God bid my poor body to arise
On that bright day triumphant through the skies! — Timothy Salter

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling. — James Salter

Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves. — Mary Jo Salter

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows. — James Salter

Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth. — Richard Salter Storrs

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish. — James Salter

Life is weather. Life is meals, — James Salter

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make. — James Salter

About how guys and girls can't ever really be just friends. I mean, how many times do I make friends with girls just to see if I want to date them? — Aimee L. Salter

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer. — James Salter

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. — James Salter

The deepest instinct is to want to do something enduring, something worthwhile, and to be engaged by that, whether one achieves it or not. — James Salter

He lived in it helplessly as we live in our bodies when we are older. — James Salter

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales. — James Salter

It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness ... — James Salter

I will not go back. I may stumble, but I will not fall. — Aimee L. Salter

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. — Lorin Stein

It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen. — James Salter

One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish. — James Salter

Writers really don't retire, you know. They have to be taken out and shot. — James Salter

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start. — James Salter

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions. — James Salter

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. — James Salter

O May my Song arise like Morning day,
And bid me look upon the break of light. — Timothy Salter

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope. — James Salter

I am ugly. I am black inside, rotting and putrid. — Aimee L. Salter

Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body. — Anna C. Salter

I am creating him out of my own inadequacies, you must remember that — James Salter

Sometimes you have an idea and just have to move forward with it. — Corey J. Salter

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. — James Salter

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move. — James Salter

Incandescent afternoons in Spain, the shutters closed, a blade of sun burning into the darkness. — James Salter

Enjoy The
Sound Of Silence. — Timothy Salter

I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist. — James Salter

Disperse the sorrow of my sadden'd mind
O Lord, help me some blessed peace to find! — Timothy Salter

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend. — Stephen Rodrick

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it. — James Salter

You were in the equipment shed with Corn Fritter?"
"Corndog," Will, Dr. Salter, and I say simultaneously. — Miranda Kenneally

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type. — James Salter

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing. — James Salter

Ere long this golden light shall pass and fade
Except all cherish'd mem'ries ye have made. — Timothy Salter

And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough. — Mary Jo Salter

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest. — James Salter

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough. — James Salter

Shopping is really complicated if you are a girl. — Helen Salter

When she said goodbye it was like a play ending. It was like the theater and coming out again to the streets. — James Salter

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. — James Salter

As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody. — James Salter

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love. — James Salter

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child. — James Salter

A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away. — James Salter