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Browsing Quotes By J.D. Salinger

  • “He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.” Zooey

    Speaker: J.D. Salinger
    Source: Franny and Zooey
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    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:07 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: religion
    Shared By: 3 members; sdressfancy, drmccadexavie, Puck

  • “What happened was, I got the idea in my head – and I could not get it out – that college was one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference if treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? It all seemed like exactly the same thing to me, if you take off the wrapping – and it still does! Sometimes I think that knowledge – when it’s knowledge for knowledge’s sake, anyway – is the worst of all. The least excusable, certainly.” Franny

    Speaker: J.D. Salinger
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:05 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: academia, knowledge

  • The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

    Speaker: J.D. Salinger
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 5:57 PM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: academia, intellectualism
    Shared By: 3 members; sdressfancy, drmccadexavie, Puck