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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

— James Salter, Light Years
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