“Jesus knew — knew — that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.”

—  Jerome David Salinger , book Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)

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