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I cant see why anybody — unless he was a child, or an angel, or a luck — J. D. Salinger

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"I cant see why anybody — unless he was a child, or an angel, or a lucky simpleton like the pilgrim — would even want to say a prayer to a Jesus who was the least bit different from the way he looks and sounds in the New Testament. My God! Hes only the most intelligent man in the Bible, thats all! Who isnt he head and shoulders over? Who? Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favorite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls — but, my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up? Nobody. Not Moses. Dont tell me Moses. He was a nice man, and he kept in beautiful touch with his God, and all that — but thats exactly the point. He had to keep in touch. Jesus realized there is no separation from God."
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Jerome David Salinger was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940, before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker, which published much of his later work.

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