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James Salter, eigentlich James Arnold Horowitz, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er wuchs bei seinen Eltern George und Mildred Horowitz, geb. Scheff, in Manhattan auf und besuchte die private Horace Mann-Schule im Stadtteil Bronx. Salter wurde zunächst Offizier und war dann Pilot bei der amerikanischen Luftwaffe. Mit dem Erfolg seines ersten Romans „The Hunters“ zog er sich aber im Folgejahr aus dem Militärdienst zurück und wurde Schriftsteller. 1961 übernahm er seinen Schriftstellernamen auch als bürgerlichen Namen.

✵ 10. Juni 1925 – 19. Juni 2015  •  Andere Namen جيمس سالتر
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“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

Quelle: 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

Quelle: 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

Quelle: All That Is

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

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James Salter buch A Sport and a Pastime

Quelle: 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 buch A Sport and a Pastime

Quelle: A Sport and a Pastime

“The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.”

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James Salter buch 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 buch 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 buch 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 buch 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 buch 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 buch 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 buch 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 buch 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 buch 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 buch 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 buch A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime (1967)

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