He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
J. D. SalingerThat's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.
J. D. SalingerI'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete โ that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
J. D. SalingerWhen I really worry about something, I donโt just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I donโt go. Iโm too worried to go. I donโt want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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