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He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern

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James Salter
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Approximate author period: c. 1970 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to James Salter, based on documented lifetime 1925 to 2015. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395915 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1395915 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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