"Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion."

-- J. D. Salinger

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“True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.”
“I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.”
“Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.”
“In publishing The First Man I said to myself, 'this is going to be awful,' but awful from the point of view of the criticism. I'm not afraid of [Albert] Camus' public. I'm afraid of what will be written in the papers.”
“The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.”
“If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.”
“To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense”

Source : Freya Stark (1974). “Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30”

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