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“Certains visages vous subjuguent, on s'en détourne avec le sentiment de renoncer même à respirer. Demain, j'aurai oublié tout ça, se dit-il. Le matin, tout est différent, les choses deviennent réelles.”

James Salter

Light Years

“Toute la nuit, dans le noir, la mer avait défilé.

Sous le pont, dans leurs lits métalliques étagés les uns au-dessus des autres par rangées de six, des centaines d'hommes, silencieux, gisant pour la plupart sur le dos, n'avaient toujours pas trouvé le sommeil alors que le jour allait poindre. Les lampes étaient en veilleuse, les moteurs vrombissaient inlassablement, les ventilateurs brassaient l'air humide : quinze cents soldats, chacun avec des armes et un paquetage assez lourds pour le faire couler à pic, comme une enclume jetée dans l'océan, rien qu'une fraction de l'immense armée en route vers Okinawa, la grande île située à la pointe sud du japon.”

James Salter

Et rien d'autre ('), 2013

“Oui bien sûr, il était un peu au dessus de la moyenne comme pilote, aussi.”

James Salter

Pour la gloire (The hunters), 1957

James Salter: Citations en anglais

“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”

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James Salter

Source: Burning the Days: Recollection

“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave”

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James Salter

Source: Dusk and Other Stories

“He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.”

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James Salter

Source: All That Is

“One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.”

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

Source: A Sport and a Pastime

“As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.”

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

Source: A Sport and a Pastime

“The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.”

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

“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.”

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

“…she is simply the living portion of the meal.”

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

“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.”

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

“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.”

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James Salter

Burning the Days (1997 memoir)

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

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A 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.”

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James Salter livre A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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