You’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior... many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now.
Are you a writer or just a writer of rattling good stories.
Jesus realised there is no separation from God.
Please follow your heart, win or lose.
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer.
You’ll pardon me, maybe, for saying so, but not all readers are skilled readers.
I go mostly because I’m tired as hell of getting up furious in the morning and going to bed furious at night.
It’s the truth. Please don’t simply see it; feel it.
I wish you’d learn to leave the goddam party when it’s over.
Well, I hate it. Boy, do I hate it,” I said. “But it isn’t just that. It’s everything. I hate living in New York and all. Taxicabs, and Madison Avenue buses, with the drivers and all always yelling at you to get out at the rear door, and being introduced to phony guys that call the Lunts angels, and going up and down in elevators when you just want to go outside, and guys fitting your pants all the time at Brooks, and people always –.
I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.
I could puke every time I hear it.
Tout le monde est une nonne.
Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now.
You keep talking about ego. My God, it would take Christ himself to decide what’s ego and what isn’t. This is God’s universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what’s ego and what isn’t.
When you first felt the urge, the call, to say the prayer, you didn’t immediately start searching the four corners of the world for a master. You came home. You not only came home but you went into a goddam collapse. So if you look at it in a certain way, by rights you’re only entitled to the low-grade spiritual counsel we’re able to give you around here, and no more. At least you know there won’t be any goddam ulterior motives in this madhouse. Whatever we are, we’re not fishy, buddy.
It is so something really! Certainly it is! Why the hell isn’t it? People never think anything is anything, really.
The trouble is,′ Teddy said, ’most people don’t want to see things the way they are.
Then I thought of something, all of a sudden. “Hey, listen,” I said. “You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?” I realized it was only one chance in a million.
Franny took in her breath slightly but continued to hold the phone to her ear. A dial tone, of course, followed the formal break in the connection. She appeared to find it extraordinarily beautiful to listen to, rather as if it were the best possible substitute for the primordial silence itself. But she seemed to know, too, when to stop listening to it, as if all of what little or much wisdom there is in the world were suddenly hers.