July 2011
29 posts
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“…the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed...”
– J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction
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“I believe I essentially remain what I’ve almost always been - a narrator,...”
– J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction
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“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce...”
– J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction
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“Isn’t the true poet or painter a seer? Isn’t he, actually, the only...”
– J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction
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“I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for...”
– J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction
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“…divine or not, a seizure’s a seizure.”
– J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction
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“Just the cigar, in a small, nice box. Possibly with a blank sheet of paper...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
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“…please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming...”
– J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction
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“Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
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“Certain heads, certain colors and textures of human hair leave permanent marks...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
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“I’ll champion indiscrimination till doomsday, on the ground that it leads...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
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“He had written, in letters that had not quite jelled yet, the single word...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
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“She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
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“For some minutes, before she fell into a deep, dreamless sleep, she just lay...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“The goddam sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“God damn it, there isn’t any prayer in any religion in the world that...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“God damn it,” he said, “there are nice things in the world - and I...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“Just because I’m choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment,...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“…is there all the difference in the world, for you, in which side somebody...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“What happened was, I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“I submit that Zooey’s face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“Somewhere in “The Great Gatsby” (which was my “Tom...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
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“I mean the point is did you ever hear anything so fascinating in your life, in a...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny, Franny and Zooey
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“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny, Franny and Zooey
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“I do like him. I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny, Franny and Zooey
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“I know this much, is all,” Franny said. “If you’re a poet, you...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny, Franny and Zooey
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“Sometimes it was hell to conceal her impatience over the male of the...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny, Franny and Zooey
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“Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny, Franny and Zooey
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“We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family...”
– J.D. Salinger, Zooey, Franny and Zooey
February 2011
20 posts
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“He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the...”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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“The comfort he got from the hard, cold truth - the filth, the war, the poverty -...”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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“His theme was happiness - what it is and what it might not have been, where he...”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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“..the truth is we enjoyed each other, all three of us, and never so evidently as...”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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“It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
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“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“Love, whether newly-born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“Preach! Write! Act! Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“Heretofore, the mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“Then she took up the white foam that streaked the line of the advancing tide,...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet went...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“It was, indeed, a majestic idea that the destiny of nations should be revealed,...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendour, as if it were the...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights.”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“…there are few things whether in the outward world, or, to a certain...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“…he trod in the shadowy by-paths, and thus kept himself simple and...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
January 2011
24 posts
“He looked like the darkly engraved portraits which we see prefixed to old...”
– -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter