WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:28:22 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg observations – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Salinger, J. D. -- Catcher in the Rye, ch. 24 [Mr. Antolini] (1951) https://wist.info/salinger-j-d/32953/ https://wist.info/salinger-j-d/32953/#respond Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:14:06 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=32953 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. 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.


J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) American writer [Jerome David Salinger]
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