“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”James Salter Source: Burning the Days: Recollection
“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.”James Salter book A Sport and a PastimeA Sport and a Pastime (1967)
“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.”James Salter book A Sport and a PastimeA Sport and a Pastime (1967)