This is for all J.D Salinger fans, addicts, devotees et al.
For the people whose lives were changed by Holden.
For the people who intonate words to sound like Franny.
For true-life recluses.
No haters, naysayers,
and especially no goddamn phonies.
“ …all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory difference, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold.
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“ Listen, I don’t care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don’t tell me I’m not sensitive to beauty. That’s my Achilles’ heel, and don’t you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I’m limp, by God.
— Zooey
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (via
twelve-ish)
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“ Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person.
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