If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable. James Salter
He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted
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Edwin Markham
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
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Douglas Adams
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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G.k. Chesterton
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
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Dorothy Parker
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Ambrose Bierce
More Quotes By James Salter
One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain...
They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites, ' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get...
Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended, described, but closer it begins to separate, to break into light and shadow, the density blinds one. Within there is no form, only prodigious detail...
You must go further than I did, " Nedra said. "You know that."" Further?"" With your life. You must become free." She did not explain it; she could not. It was not a matter of living alone, though in her case this had been necessary....
Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave
