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It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.
It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.
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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