JSJames Salter

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James Salter

Life dates: 1925 AD — 2015 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1970 AD

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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02c. 1970 AD

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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03c. 1970 AD

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

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04c. 1970 AD

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

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05c. 1970 AD

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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