Author: James Salter

Cites

• Koran (1)
  • IN: A Sport and a Pastime (1967) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Remember that the life of this world is but a sport and a pastime...
    FROM: Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL

Cited by

• Neel Mukherjee (1)
  • IN: The Lives of Others (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?
    FROM: Light Years, (1975), NULL, US
• Rahul Bhattacharya (1)
  • IN: The Sly Company of People Who Care (2011) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All this was Dutch. Then, like so much else, it was English.
    FROM: Light Years, (1975), NULL, US
• Esme Weijun Wang (1)
  • IN: The Border of Paradise (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Real goodness was different, it was irresistible, murderous, it had victims like any other aggression; in short, it conquered. We must be vague, we must be gentle, we are killing people otherwise, whatever our intentions, we are crushing them beneath a vision of light.
    FROM: Light Years, (1975), Novel, US
• Belinda McKeon (1)
  • IN: Tender (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.
    FROM: Light Years, (1975), Novel, US
• Julia Glass (1)
  • IN: The Widower's Tale (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In the way that a gambler who has lost can easily imagine himself again in possession of his money, thinking how false, how undeserved was the process that took it from him, so he sometimes found himself unwilling to believe what had happened, or ertain that his marraige would somehow be foundagain. So much of it was still in existence.
    FROM: Light Years, (1975), Novel, US
• Sarah Hall (1)
  • IN: Madame Zero (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The more clearly one sees this world, the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL