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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 as everybody else, only in a different way."

no one gets me like Salinger. just finished Franny's part && i liked it.

idk how to feel

“The terrible part, though, is that I meant it when I asked her. That’s the terrible part. I swear to God I’m a madman.”

rereading one of my favorites.

"Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?"
"Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do. But not too much, I guess. Not too much, I guess."
"You will," old Spencer said. “You will, boy. You will when it's too late."
I didn't like hearing him say that. It made me sound dead or something. It was
very depressing. "I guess I will," I said.

“François Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

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God bless John Green.