You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
From James Salter
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.
Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with nothing, we would be naked on earth.
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.
I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.
Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
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