“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
“I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
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“It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.
Information is control.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
Information is control.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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