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He remembered that once, in a borrowed car, after kissing Franny for a half hour or so, he had kissed her coat lapel, as though it were a perfectly desirable, organic extension of the person herself.
and I didn’t want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
I can’t even sit down to lunch with a man any more and hold up my end of a decent conversation. I either get so bored or so goddam preachy that if the son of a bitch had any sense, he’d break his chair over my head.’
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
God they’re insufferable
‘I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while – just once in a while – there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn’t, it’s just a disgusting waste of time!
his attention be drawn to a little scene that was being acted out sublimely, unhampered by writers and directors and producers, five stories below the window and across the street.
Sublime example of Found Drama (Incandenza, Y.O.T.D.A.U)
It may very well be that I hate like hell to play Martha to somebody else’s Mary.
They make everything they touch turn absolutely academic and useless.
You can say your prayer here and roll Jesus and St Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all in one.’
Do you think God does not know that he is being worshipped in the images and pictures? If a worshipper should make a mistake, do you not think God will know his intent?’
He says the only people he ever really wants to meet for a drink somewhere are all either dead or unavailable.
True
