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"As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things."

"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."

"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."

"Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy - just a boy."
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"An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
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