"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

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Source : J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

J. D. Salinger

#Growing Up Quotes #Men Quotes #Immature Quotes

“No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.”
“Swimming Pool was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.”
“...for me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood .... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God”
“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.”
“I can't change the world. I have to fix me.”
“A good story needs only a good storyteller.”
“I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.”
“There will never be enough thanks, never enough words nor thoughts high or deep enough to adequately convey His worth. I don't know how to give back to the Lord what He deserves other than to just offer Him my life and every part of me.”

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