“When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.”

— Jerome David Salinger , book The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

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