James Salter quote: "In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural."

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth...
JAMES SALTER

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.
JAMES SALTER

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
JAMES SALTER

Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you'...
JAMES SALTER

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in w...
JAMES SALTER

Their life is mysterious, it is like a forest; from far off it seems a unity, it can be comprehended...
JAMES SALTER

I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written ...
JAMES SALTER

It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but th...
JAMES SALTER

The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain ...
JAMES SALTER

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
JAMES SALTER

I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom...
JAMES SALTER

I love to write about Nabokov and also to think about him. I love his attitude that he is incomparab...
JAMES SALTER

There is no situation like the open road, and seeing things completely afresh. I'm used to trave...
JAMES SALTER

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.
JAMES SALTER

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words un...
JAMES SALTER

Leven is het weer. Leven is maaltijden. Lunch op een blauw-geruit kleed waar zout op is gemorst. De ...
JAMES SALTER

Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some case...
JAMES SALTER

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as ...
JAMES SALTER

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I ...
JAMES SALTER

Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and ...
JAMES SALTER

I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poe...
JAMES SALTER

I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind...
JAMES SALTER

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you ...
JAMES SALTER

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. ...
JAMES SALTER

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past...
JAMES SALTER

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
JAMES SALTER

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to bel...
WILLIAM SALTER

Blaming therapy, social work and other caring professions for the confabulation of testimony of 'sat...
MICHAEL SALTER

There are a range of useful and illuminating analyses of the media construction of organised abuse a...
MICHAEL SALTER

As mandatory reporting laws and community awareness drove an increase its child protection investiga...
MICHAEL SALTER

Frosh (2002) has suggested that therapeutic spaces provide children and adults with the rare opportu...
MICHAEL SALTER

That was the maids' and butlers' nights off.
RUBIN SALTER

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cau...
MICHAEL SALTER

Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the ea...
MICHAEL SALTER

Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into ...
MICHAEL SALTER

This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood...
MICHAEL SALTER

Because I was a bachelor, they kept me out for a while.
RUBIN SALTER

So far, our numbers look to be about the same as last year, if you subtract the 300 or so kids from ...
TOM SALTER

We came out a little passive. We weren't playing the way we're used to.
ROB SALTER

I just lost it. I saw the base line was open. It was just a fraction of an inch.
TOM SALTER

what it is...is a place where I can return to myself. It's enough of a scramble to get to...that the...
JAY SALTER

Some mental healthcare workers are aware of clients with high needs, such as dissociative disorders ...
MICHAEL SALTER

In 2011 in Swansea, Wales, Colin Batley was found guilty of 35 charges relating to his role as the l...
MICHAEL SALTER

Shopping is really complicated if you are a girl.
HELEN SALTER

In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’...
MICHAEL SALTER

Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which...
MICHAEL SALTER

The art of tea, whichever way you drink it, or whichever country you are from, has one underlining t...
NICOLA SALTER

In order to establish the narrative that innocent men have been the victims of an epidemic of false ...
MICHAEL SALTER

In the early 1990s, a group of people accused of sexual abuse formed the 'False Memory Syndrome Foun...
MICHAEL SALTER

Smoke and mirrors’ is a useful metaphor for the ways in which organised abuse has chided conceptua...
MICHAEL SALTER

Nonetheless, it remains the case that the psychological literature on organised abuse has not provid...
MICHAEL SALTER

Batley insisted that no cult existed but the jury found him guilty of 35 offences including 11 rapes...
MICHAEL SALTER

The data on organised abuse has been simplified or distorted in an attempt force it to conform to me...
MICHAEL SALTER

The fact that most perpetrators of organised abuse are men, and that their most intensive and sadist...
MICHAEL SALTER

Qualitative and quantitative research with adults and children reporting ritual abuse has found that...
MICHAEL SALTER

The literature on ritualistic abuse suggests that ritualistic sexual practices with young children a...
MICHAEL SALTER

My view is that the false memory campaign is a spent force. It failed to realise its key goals, fail...
MICHAEL SALTER

During a period in which women and children’s testimony of incest and sexual abuse were gaining an...
MICHAEL SALTER

More arrests are possible in connection with the case.
MARK SALTER

We're getting a lot of exposure to top-of-the-line facilities we normally wouldn't have access to. Y...
MARK SALTER

We've spent a good bit of money trying to clean up some things to make it conducive to play there. W...
MARK SALTER

We're looking forward to playing those games there.
MARK SALTER

The way that he has been shooting the ball lately is unbelievable to see.
ROB SALTER

We will find out Monday if the policy will cover any portion of the students' instruments.
TOM SALTER

In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to mor...
ANNA C. SALTER

I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a chil...
ANNA C. SALTER

Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, an...
ANNA C. SALTER

In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child ph...
ANNA C. SALTER

We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into...
ANNA C. SALTER

The people who support and defend those accused of child sexual abuse indiscriminately, those who jo...
ANNA C. SALTER

For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history ...
ANNA C. SALTER

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevita...
ANNA C. SALTER

It is important to refuse to be intimidated. That refusal must not be based simply on a calculation ...
ANNA C. SALTER

Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that bot...
ANNA C. SALTER

over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. and when we imply that victims bring on their o...
ANNA C. SALTER

Malevolence takes a bite out off your spirit. Just sitting with it, just talking with people who con...
ANNA C. SALTER

Recently I interviewed a psychopath. This is always a humbling experience because it teaches over an...
ANNA C. SALTER

You don’t have to feed the lie if you don’t want it to. If you make it credible it will become t...
HOWARD L. SALTER

A lie carries a weight that is exponentially higher than the truth. It’s weight will retard growth...
HOWARD L. SALTER

In a series of three studies, the offenders who claimed they were abused as a child were 67 percent,...
ANNA C. SALTER

In musing on all that occurred in the course of the several years of harassment the error I decided ...
ANNA C. SALTER

Jan Hindman knows all too well that people who have lied for decades about their offending would lie...
ANNA C. SALTER

Are Child Molesters Really Just Victims Themselves?
"All victims are offenders," one professio...
ANNA C. SALTER

It is a political fight between a group of well-financed, well-organized people whose freedom, livel...
ANNA C. SALTER

I am ugly. I am black inside, rotting and putrid.
AIMEE L. SALTER

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES

I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
JAMES ST. JAMES

Why, oh why, must we always go through pigs to get our truffles?
JAMES ST. JAMES

I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the onl...
JAMES ST. JAMES

We danced on the lip of the volcano, so to speak. We were young, too. And New York was still a big, ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.
JAMES ST. JAMES

As for my identity within the context of New York nightlife? I left in the '90s, so I'm not ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I was definitely the oddball freak show in school.
JAMES ST. JAMES

When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big ...
JAMES ST. JAMES

I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers...
JAMES ST. JAMES

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.
JAMES ST. JAMES

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free...
JAMES ST. JAMES

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.
JAMES BLUNT

National honor is the national property of the highest value.
JAMES MONROE

Every person is created in the image of God and has value. Every person. Every person is to be treat...
JAMES LANKFORD

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started openi...
KEVIN JAMES

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'
KEVIN JAMES

Every time I do a movie where it gets physical, I say never again.
KEVIN JAMES

I really wasn't a class clown.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.
KEVIN JAMES

Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
KEVIN JAMES

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the s...
KEVIN JAMES

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.
KEVIN JAMES

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
KEVIN JAMES

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.
KEVIN JAMES

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfo...
KEVIN JAMES

I don't want to be known as this goody-two-shoes who can only do comedies where puppies are lick...
KEVIN JAMES

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
KEVIN JAMES

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to sa...
KEVIN JAMES

Now I'm starting to jog. But every time I do jog I have 9-1 pressed into my phone, with the next...
KEVIN JAMES

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
KEVIN JAMES

I never played a musical instrument growing up but I knew kids who did and took it very seriously.
KEVIN JAMES

A song can take you to a special time in your life.
KEVIN JAMES

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, '...
KEVIN JAMES

I could never be James Bond.
KEVIN JAMES

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.
KEVIN JAMES

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it&...
JAMES DASHNER

It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies.
JAMES WAN

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.
JAMES THOMSON

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by...
JAMES THOMSON

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no ...
JAMES THOMSON

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER

I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with othe...
JAMES TAYLOR

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.
JAMES FRANCO

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is ...
JAMES HILLMAN

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,...
JAMES HILLMAN

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and ...
JAMES BUCHANAN

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t...
JAMES WOLCOTT

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t...
JAMES MONROE

We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed ...
THEO JAMES

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c...
JAMES BELUSHI

An actor should be judged by his performance only.
JAMES DEAN

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki...
JAMES DEAN

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's followi...
JAMES DEAN

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this grea...
JAMES DEAN

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ...
JAMES DEAN

Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN

The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences li...
JAMES DEAN

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And...
JAMES DEAN

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things ...
JAMES DEAN

I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't w...
JAMES DEAN

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is end...
JAMES DEAN

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
JAMES DEAN

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and im...
JAMES DEAN

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you'...
JAMES DEAN

Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life...
JAMES DEAN

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how ...
JAMES DEAN

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
KEVIN JAMES

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why...
JAMES WOODS

I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous p...
JAMES HIBBERD

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th...
JAMES HOWE

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration,...
JAMES LANKFORD

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.
JAMES FRANCO

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ...
JAMES MARSDEN

I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#...
LILY JAMES

You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a...
JAMES SUROWIECKI

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the sho...
JAMES HECKMAN

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of respondin...
JAMES ALLEN

A man is literally what he thinks.
JAMES ALLEN

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ...
JAMES ALLEN

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y...
JAMES ALLEN

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.
LEBRON JAMES

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p...
LEBRON JAMES

I'm confident with my ability.
LEBRON JAMES

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

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In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

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