The purest literary talent appears at one time great, at another time small, but character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.
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The purest literary talent appears at one time great, at another time small, but character is of a stellar and undiminishable greatness.
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1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 52, […] could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second. But what was undiminishable […] was an authentic esprit superimposed over his entire face […]
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