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His handwriting has been eradicated by the power of sad mid-tempo rock. I know that’s not a satisfactory explanation, but that’s the best I can do.
“Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Contentedly adrift in the cosmos. That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while. How long did the feeling last?”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
“I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic.”
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
― Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
“I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.”
― Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
― Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
“One would soon go mad if one took such coincidences too seriously. One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.”
― Bluebeard
― Bluebeard
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