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“You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”
― Slow Learner: Early Stories
― Slow Learner: Early Stories
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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