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\u201cBut the thing is, the marvelous thing is, when you first start doing it, you don\u2019t even have to have faith<\/em> in what you\u2019re doing. I mean even if you\u2019re terribly embarrassed about the whole thing, it\u2019s perfectly all right. I mean you\u2019re not insult<\/em>ing anybody or anything. In other words, nobody asks you to believe a single thing when you start out. You don\u2019t even have to think about what you\u2019re saying, the sarets said. All you have to have in the beginning is quantity. Then, later on, it becomes quality by itself. On its own power or something. He says that any name of God \u2013 any name at all \u2013 has this peculiar, self-active power of its own, and it starts working after you\u2019ve sort of started it up.\u201d – Franny<\/p>\n ********<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t care where an actor acts. It can be in summer stock, in can be over a radio, it can be over tele<\/em>vision, it can be in a goddam Broadway theatre, complete with the most fashionable, most well-fed, most sunburned-looking audience you can imagine. But I\u2019ll tell you a terrible secret \u2013 Are you listening to me? There isn\u2019t anyone out there who isn\u2019t Seymour\u2019s Fat Lady.<\/em> That includes your Professor Tupper, buddy. And all his goddam cousins by the dozens. There isn\u2019t anyone any<\/em>where that isn\u2019t Seymour\u2019s Fat Lady. Don\u2019t you know that? Don\u2019t you know that goddam secret yet? And don\u2019t you know \u2013 listen to me, now \u2013 don\u2019t you know who that Fat Lady really is?<\/em> \u2026 Ah, buddy. It\u2019s Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.\u201d – and Zooey<\/a><\/p>\n [btw, I always imagined the dialogue in these two stories to be the more suitable adaptation for film than Holden’s whiny jaunt around New York. Glad to find out a good friend actually took a stab at such an effort.]<\/p>\nTell people this is awesome:<\/h3>