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J.D. Salinger
“I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

Nick Hornby
“One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.”
Nick Hornby, 31 Songs

Edwin A. Abbott
“The whole of the Targum deserves study as shewing how textual ambiguity or corruption may combine with doctrinal prepossession to modify tradition;
Chapter II, Section 2, Paragraph 1171”
Edwin A. Abbott, Paradosis; or, in the Night in which he was Betrayed

Tom Robbins
“Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!”
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Salman Rushdie
“You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.”
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

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262 books | 15 friends

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Mel Kujala
172 books | 18 friends

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