• A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

    J. D. Salinger: A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
    'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction' (1963) p. 195 'Seymour' (1959)