Quotes by James Salter, Light Years

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Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but clo — James Salter, Light Years
You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that.""Further?""With your life. You must become free."She did no — James Salter, Light Years
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. — James Salter, Light Years
...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved not — James Salter, Light Years
She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of co — James Salter, Light Years
He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two. — James Salter, Light Years
But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait out — James Salter, Light Years
For those we are born to speak to we need prepare nothing, the lines are ready, everything is there. — James Salter, Light Years