“I think I'd give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything — a story, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.”

—J.D Salinger, from Seymour: An Introduction

“Keep me up until five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.”

—J.D Salinger, from Seymour: An Introduction

“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people” ”

—J.D. Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

“Anderson's films, like Salinger's stories, are filled with loquacious, combative, often hyperachieving individuals who seem fully formed and secure in their identities but who reveal themselves as deeply damaged—by class anxiety, social expectations, and family dysfunction. They are too smart by half, and both artists let us know that their characters’ intelligence affords no insurance against despair or death.”

—Matt Zoller Seitz Examining the Wes Anderson–J.D. Salinger Connection 
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