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“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsay able than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.”
― Franny and Zooey
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.”
― Franny and Zooey
“It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.”
― The Member of the Wedding
― The Member of the Wedding
“Je ne me sens jamais vivre plus intensément que quand je m'échappe à moi-même pour devenir n'importe qui.”
― Les faux-monnayeurs
― Les faux-monnayeurs
“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
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