# James Salter

- Quotes: 12
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter

## Books

- [A Sport and a Pastime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime.md) — 11 quotes
- [Burning the Days](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/burning-the-days.md) — 1 quote

## Recently added quotes

> The myriad past, it enters us and disappears. Except that within it, somewhere, like diamonds, exist the fragments that refuse to be consumed. Sifting through, if one dares, and collecting them, one discovers the true design.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/the-myriad-past.md)

> ''The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/the-summer-has.md)

> Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/solitude-one-knows.md)

> ...she is simply the living portion of the meal.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/she-is-simply.md)

> France is herself Only in the winter, her naked self, without manners. In the fine weather, all the world can love her.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/france-is-herself.md)

> A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/a-light-snow.md)

> He nestles himself flat in the meeting of her buttocks. An excruciating douche.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/he-nestles-himself.md)

> I have never been able to write the story. I reach a certain point and cannot go on. The death of kings can be recited, but not of one’s child.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/burning-the-days/i-have-never.md)

> The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/the-dreams-are.md)

> He seems very mournful, but there is all the winter still to be survived. He no longer lives in years; he is down to seasons. Finally it will become single nights.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/he-seems-very.md)

> One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/one-alters-the.md)

> As his prick goes into her, he discovers the world. He knows the source of numbers, the path of the stars.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/as-his-prick.md)