Quotes from Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction — J. D. Salinger
1919–2010 United States
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on Earth.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back "What?"
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
I'm a kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)
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