Tag: J. D. Salinger

Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them–if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.

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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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You’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. But immediately. You can’t afford to lose a minute.

Quote, saying and phrase by: J. D. Salinger