206 Quotes by James Salter

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

Leven is het weer. Leven is maaltijden. Lunch op een blauw-geruit kleed waar zout op is gemorst. De geur van tabak. Brie, gele appels, messen met houten handvaten.

there comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real.

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

Any two people when they separate,it's like splitting a log.The pieces aren't even. One of them contains the core.

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.

She had accepted the limitations of her life. It was this anguish, this contentment which created her grace.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.

I don’t really think nations can die,” he said. “A place and a history as vast as America cannot disappear, but it can become dark. And it seems to be slipping toward that. I mean, the utterly blind passions, the lack of moderation—these things are like a fever. Well, it’s more than that. Perhaps we’re alarmed over something we just hadn’t noticed before, something which has always existed, but I don’t think so.