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Given the multiple readings
of the four published books
authored by J.D. Salinger,
I've read ≈3000 pages
of his stories.
Arguably, this page
is the most influential one
I ever read
for the following reasons:
1.
It first introduced
a fourteen-year-old boy
to FRANZ KAFKA
2.
The quote + twenty others
appear on the wall
of a bedroom initially occupied
by the eldest of the
(Seymour + Buddy).
All the quotes
are related to religion
and spirituality.
Since my first reading
of this page,
no bedroom wall,
classroom wall, patio wall...
of my own has escaped
the scribbling
of "profound quotes."
3.
In the sixty year future
of that
fourteen-year-old,
he has written
≈ 300 book reports
for his own pleasure.
Virtually none of them
contain my own words
about the book
but ALL of them
contain my favorite quotes
from the pages read
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The next Salinger page
is here
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Do you have an all-time favorite quote from the books you've read?
ReplyDeleteOliverio says:
DeleteYES and it is from Mark Twain.
≈When I was sixteen years old, my father was an idiot.
But when I was twenty-one, it amazed me how much
he learned in five years.
ANOTHER all-time favorite is from news analyst,
Eric Severeid:
≈The greatest product ever manufactured
by the United States is not steel or automobiles.
It is Anxiety≈