James Salter - Burning the Days (1997)

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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.

James Salter

I was from the suburbs. I had a wife, children, the entire manifest. Even in the city I found it hard to believe I was working on anything of interest.

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