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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ad09a6f | The need to fear such things was ended | James Salter | ||
| 0067f8d | A veces uno es consciente de cuando estan produciendose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas." James Salter, Quemar los dias" | David Nicholls | ||
| 3da9ca9 | Gertrude Stein, when asked why she wrote, replied 'For praise..' Lorca said he wrote to be loved. Faulkner said a writer wrote for glory. I may at times have written for those reasons, it's hard to know. Overall I write because I see the world in a certain way that no dialogue or series of them can begin to describe, that no book can fully render, though the greatest books thrill in their attempt. | James Salter | ||
| 7d4e8e9 | There were other houses that always brought images of an orderly life, kitchens with plain sideboards, old windows, the comforts of marriage in their common form, which at times surpassed everything--breakfast in the morning, conversations, late hours, and nothing that suggested excess or decay. | James Salter | ||
| e574f8d | Dingen die je geschreven hebt, rijpen niet met je mee, zo lijkt me althans. De waarheid ervan kan bepaald zijn door de tijd, maar er bestaat niet zoiets als bij de tijd zijn wanneer de tijd voorbij is. Boeken blijven bestaan buiten de tijd om of ze houden op te bestaan. Dat is zoals het gaat in de literatuur. Boeken markeren een periode of een plaats, en geleidelijk worden ze die tijd en plaats'. | James Salter | ||
| c408aa8 | Mentre sedevano vicini o mangiavano o camminavano, lui condivideva liberamente con lei i suoi pensieri e le sue idee sulla vita, la storia, l'arte. Le parlava di ogni cosa. Sapeva che lei non si interessava a quegli argomenti, pero capiva e col tempo avrebbe imparato. Lui non l'amava soltanto per quello che era, ma per quello che poteva essere, e l'idea che potesse essere diversa non gli passava per la testa, oppure non gliene importava. Pe.. | James Salter | ||
| 377ee57 | I cannot think of it without sadness. I think of the day-long, intimate hours in her apartment with the same record playing over and over, phrases from it like some sort of oath I will know til the day I die. | James Salter | ||
| 1e3dc22 | at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was life you learned from, passion, experience. The host, a fine old man in seventies, heard her and disagreed. His hair was white. His voice that the faint shrillness of age. "No, everything I've ever learned,", he said, "has come from books. I'd be in the darkness without them." | James Salter | ||
| 69f26fe | Vamos alla, arriesguemos nuestras vidas. Porque si tienen algun valor, es precisamente que no tienen ninguno. | James Salter | ||
| 801f6f4 | Los poetas, los escritores, los sabios y las voces de su tiempo, forman un coro, el himno que comparten es el mismo: los grandes y pequenos se unen, lo hermoso vive, lo demas muere, y todo es absurdo excepto el honor, el amor y lo poco que el corazon conoce. | James Salter | ||
| 530fa0a | La luz, la divinidad, la pose absoluta, donde por la manana, en camas revueltas, en susurros, se te presenta la vida. | James Salter | ||
| a6413bf | As I think of it, there's an ache in my chest. I cannot control these dreams in which she seems to lie in my future like a whole season of extravagant meals if only I knew how to arrange it. | James Salter | ||
| b5c85cd | I enjoy a misogynist so long as they have a wicked sense of humor and know, on some level, that they're pigs. This is why I enjoy Philip Roth but not Saul Bellow or James Salter. | Heidi Julavits | ||
| b041f04 | Tus besos me destierran | James Salter | ||
| 9fc77f5 | And all of this, dependent, closely woven, all of it is deceiving. There are really two kinds of life. There is, as Viri says, the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is this other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see. | James Salter | ||
| 77ab450 | Er komt een tijd dat je alleen bent," schreef Celine lang voordat het hem echt overkwam, "als je aan het eind bent gekomen van alles wat je overkomen kan. Het is het einde van de wereld, zelfs verdriet, je eigen verdriet, geeft geen antwoord meer en je moet op je schreden terugkeren, je weer onder de mensen begeven, het maakt niet uit wie." | James Salter | ||
| 09f52ff | whom we do not believe. Who we know does not exist. | James Salter | ||
| 2cc8624 | The dead bring us to life, vivify us, give us scale. We are the unjoined part of them and at their graves we stand at our own. In Ruby Park Cemetery, in the once-famous silver lands of Colorado, the graves are unmarked. There is a single column of marble above a miner's daughter who died at the age of seventeen. The town of Irwin drew thousands of people in the 1870s, some from as far away as England and Scotland. The cemetery is abandoned... | James Salter | ||
| 3a02533 | Gevoel van moed. Groot verlangen verder te leven. | James Salter | ||
| 7740c3f | suddenly felt frightened. He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in a special way, in every detail, roof and wall, in the leaves of trees fluttering faintly before a rain. The world was opening itself, as if to allow, now that life was shortening, one long, passionate look, and all that had been withheld would finally be given. | James Salter | ||
| b1406b3 | The problem is, we only get one chance at this, with no do-overs. Life is an unrepeatable experiment with no control. In his novel about marriage, Light Years, James Salter writes: "For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the pardox."1 A" | Tim Kreider | ||
| 2183ef2 | Of Bryan, it might be said that he was candid about his wife and uncomplaining. He treated her offhandedly, as he might treat bad weather. | James Salter | ||
| 60658cf | Every glance made him need another. | love glance infatuation looking | James Salter | |
| 6a2a081 | But of course, in one sense, Dean never died - his existence is superior to such accidents. One must have heroes, which is to say, one must create them. And they become real through our envy, our devotion. It is we who give them their majesty, their power, which ourselves could never possess. And in turn, they give some back. But they are mortal, these heroes, just as we are. They do not last forever. They fade. They vanish. They are surpas.. | time remeberance role-model hero memory | James Salter | |
| 7193a19 | NOVELS Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace. Exley, Frederick. A Fan's Notes. Kohler, Sheila. One Girl. Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Salter, James. Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime. Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Welch, James. The Death of Jim Loney. Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. White, Edmund. The Beautiful Room Is Empty. SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS Bloom, Amy. Come to Me. Cameron, Peter. The Half You Don't Know. Carver, Raymond. Where I'm Calli.. | The New York Writers Workshop | ||
| c76f86e | Traiesc in trecut, ori intr-un viitor care nu va exista niciodata. | Irvin D. Yalom | ||
| fe650d5 | Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), who thought that the French Revolution was the dividing line between the past and a 'glorious future', believed there were three outstanding issues in history - the destruction of inequality between nations, the progress of equality within one and the same nation, and the perfecting of mankind. | Peter Watson | ||
| 00bbe3d | Now, first of all this boy lived in a mansion - at least compared to our one-room shack in the swamp. Peter's house wasn't like one of those historic houses that all look alike. Naw, the Grants' house was a mansion fixer-upper. White Lions on black-marble columns greeted you at the front. Then there was a veranda with black-and-white tiles. It had three bedrooms, a guest room and helpers' quarters. Kitchen counters went on for ever, and the.. | Roland Watson-Grant | ||
| b14ab8b | Actually, IBM went through a severe identity crisis. It almost missed the computer opportunity. It became capable of growth only through a palace coup which overthrew Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the company's founder, its chief executive, and for long years the prophet of "data processing." | Peter F. Drucker | ||
| e32a733 | Grief is an ocean where the waves obey their own rhythm, their own tide, where we are just thrown about to stay afloat as best we can. Where there is in fact no guarantee that we will keep our heads above water. | Peter Watson | ||
| 1e65c0e | Carl Jung, in a letter to the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Watson, remarked that the Latin for "alcohol" is spiritus, which is also the word for "soul," and that the abuse of alcohol was fueled by a desire to know God, to transcend daily drudgery for a glimpse of a greater reality." | Peter Bebergal | ||
| 32454eb | Even by the end of the seventeenth century, fifty years before our starting point, there was no shortage of people in Europe who felt that the Christian religion had been gravely discredited. Protestants and Catholics had been killing each other in the hundreds of thousands, or millions, for holding opinions that no one could prove one way or the other. The observations of Kepler and Galileo transformed man's view of the heavens, and the fl.. | Peter Watson | ||
| d6141b6 | The discipline of history is particularly important in this context because while science has had a direct impact on how historians write, and what they write about, history has itself been evolving. One of the great debates in historiography is over how events move forward. One school of thought has it that 'great men' are mostly what matter, that the decisions of people in power can bring about significant shifts in world events and menta.. | Peter Watson | ||
| 4d778aa | Genetic evidence, of individuals across the world, alive now, shows that all non-African people are descended from one small group that must have passed through the Arabian peninsula. | Peter Watson | ||
| 4a4d867 | Computable Numbers' into practice.21 This was | Peter Watson | ||
| 8415789 | Tom Watson, though, held his team and himself to a different standard. As he explained to his men in 1930 at the outset of the Depression, "No man deserves any special credit for being an average man. It is the men who are striving to be above the average who are the men who build business--they are the men who build nations." This belief applied to every person, including himself as the person holding the title of the CEO, because a policy.. | Peter Greulich | ||
| f42765d | Computers already have enough power to outperform people in activities we used to think of as distinctively human. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Jeopardy!'s best-ever contestant, Ken Jennings, succumbed to IBM's Watson in 2011. And Google's self-driving cars are already on California roads today. Dale Earnhardt Jr. needn't feel threatened by them, but the Guardian worries (on behalf of the millions o.. | Peter Thiel | ||
| 868a9e7 | We must always set the right kind of example all the way along the line as to character and good manners. Then you can teach the men anything, because they are with you, they will listen to you. They are not trying to show off or be smart. They get right down to business. "Men of Character and Courtesy" Thomas J. Watson Sr. January 23-25, 1933" | Peter Greulich | ||
| 330e2a8 | You are not coming into an organization that has been built. We are just building it. You are not coming into a business that has succeeded. We are merely succeeding a little more each year. "Advice to Young Men Entering Business" Thomas J. Watson Sr. October 29, 1930" | Peter Greulich | ||
| f575598 | At that moment, Ingrid remembered 'The Five Orange Pips' and maybe the most important thing Holmes told Watson: the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the ones, both before and after. | sherlock-holmes | Peter Abrahams | |
| ec5e693 | At its most simple, the notion underlying The Great Chain of Being, as identified in the first instance by Plato, is that the universe is essentially a rational place, in which all organisms are linked in a great chain, not on one scale of low to high (for Plato could see that even 'lowly' creatures were perfectly 'adapted', as we would say, to their niches in the scheme of things) but that there was in general terms a hierarchy which range.. | Peter Watson | ||
| 6113d69 | He adored talking about the rich.... But his real wealth was literary. He had read many thousands of books. He said that history was a nightmare during which he was trying to get a good night's rest. Insomnia made him more learned. | Peter Watson | ||
| a5e8a0d | In some ways this was Goethe's greatest achievement: the search for the serial relationships in nature, emphasizing border experiences, the junctures where "the real joints of nature" are located, is most likely to reveal the process of change, development, organizing principles. This is also why it needed individuals who were both poet and scientist, who could combine "imagination, observation and thought in the act of language." | Peter Watson | ||
| 3219ad8 | has profoundly modified the whole trend of modern civilisation, imposing her thought, her standards, her literary forms, her imagery, her visions and dreams wherever she is known. But Germany is the supreme example of her triumphant spiritual tyranny. The Germans have imitated the Greeks more slavishly: they have been obsessed by them more utterly... | Peter Watson |