Mar 17, 2006 19:49
"I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete- that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theater Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash."
-franny glass
i know i give salinger a hard time about catcher in the rye, but ive got to admit the man more than makes up for it with franny and zooey and nine stories. if you haven't read either of those, please do. i have a feeling they will change you're life in the way that, say, the great gatsby has done for many (though not for me).
and now, off to do st. patty's day-like things. cuz my hips dont lie. word.