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Checkout quotes by James Salter on Life

• ‟ Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

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• ‟ I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.

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

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• ‟ Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life.

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