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“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.” (Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn’t think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don’t know what to do with their invisible gifts.” (Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I privately say to you, old friend… please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own human conscience.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn’t as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“Surely, he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our supercargo and our one full poet.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
“You can’t argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet’s function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.”
J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour
