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“ …the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable. J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction

“ I believe I essentially remain what I’ve almost always been - a narrator, but one with extremely pressing personal needs. I want to introduce, I want to describe, I want to distribute mementos, amulets, I want to break out my wallet and pass around snapshots, I want to follow my nose. J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction


“ I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience. J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction

“ Isn’t the true poet or painter a seer? Isn’t he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist. J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction


“ I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one. J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction
“ …divine or not, a seizure’s a seizure. J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction


“ Just the cigar, in a small, nice box. Possibly with a blank sheet of paper enclosed, by way of explanation. J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters

“ …please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((( )))). J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction


“ Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above al, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly, and with detachment. A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
“ Certain heads, certain colors and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters