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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#franny and zooey
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#reading
#salinger
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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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#books
#franny and zooey
#quotation
#reading
#salinger
#damn you Lane
#train
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“ If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined. Oh, dare to do it, Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you.
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#Seymour: An Introduction
#buddy glass
#seymour glass
#j.d. salinger
#salinger
#writing
#reading
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“ If only you’d remember before you even sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.
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#J.D. Salinger
#Seymour An Introduction
#Seymour Glass
#Reading
#Writing
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