James Salter Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• 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.

  James Salter

  Dream, Real, Writing

  James Salter (2016). “The Art of Fiction”, p.64, University of Virginia Press

• WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.

  James Salter

  Dream, Lying, Fall

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.3, Vintage

• There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...

  James Salter

  Dream, Struggle, Hands

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.35, Vintage

• The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

  James Salter

  Dream, Reality, Skeletons

  "A Sport and a Pastime". Book by James Salter, 1967.

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