# Quote — James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime

> 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.

- Author: [James Salter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter.md)
- Book: [A Sport and a Pastime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-salter/a-sport-and-a-pastime/one-alters-the

## More from this book

> 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)