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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
"Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth."
"Live without expectations. Don't set parameters on your life by telling yourself that something can only be enjoyed if it is a certain way. Allow life to surprise you. Keep an open mind and enjoy all of life's treasures."
"When we set expectations and nourish them with appreciation, we will get better results."
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"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."
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"Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity."
"Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful."
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