Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must… - James Salter

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Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

James Salter

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James Salter (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), was an American short story writer and novelist.

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Alternative Names: James Arnold Horowitz

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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.

The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four -the years turn dry as leaves.'

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.

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult. - James Salter

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