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There’s no way to escape a storm at sea; it hits you, and you can’t hit back.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.

Coil of metal, coin of wood, two-headed and soft in the middle.

An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.

Is there some one way a guy should be on his wedding day, dickwad?

I was never nonchalant. I was more intense than Kirk Douglas.

Eating a raw oyster is like exchanging a soul kiss with the sea.

Who know fear is an aphrodisiac & nothing is scarier than time.

Why don’t we just get drunk and walk down the middle of Fifth Avenue.

A world of adventure awaited, a world of beautiful, available women.

We would just roll down the old biology road like all the other suckers.

There’s this cool magazine online. They let people read it for free.

My first suicidal ideations occurred to me when I was ten, eleven, twelve.

As soon as her grandparents left, BLAM, the dance in her died.

Here I am, king of the gods, making a fool of myself just to get under your gown.

James Salter

James Salter

A little music. An empty bottle of whiskey. It’s a little like cheating.

Everyone knew cigarettes were the gateway to harder stuff, like Zima.

The legendary author Robert Stone, in the words of his friends.

The world is where we brace for a joke that’s about to be played on us.

Someone’s walk is pretty much who they are, from the beginning.

Any invented quotation, played with confidence, can deceive.

Tobias Wolff

In high school I walked around with a beat-up copy of Kafka’s stories.

The grass is always greener in the cemetery, was a joke I made to Jed.

Society was imposing, like something out of an English drama.