"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

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Source : "A Girl I Knew". Short story by J. D. Salinger, 1948.

J. D. Salinger

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“I never fall apart, because I never fall together.”
“As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it has regarded the Jews as dangerous and pushed them into ghettos etc., because it knew what the Jews were like. I don't put race above religion, but I do see the danger in the representatives of this race for Church and State, and perhaps I am doing Christianity a great service.”
“'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.”
“Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.”
“I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.”
“The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.”
“I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.”
“America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human beingâ€”confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-orientedâ€”is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.”

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