J. D. Salinger Quote

For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things — work out rather beautifully.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963) - Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, ...

For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, ...

For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, ...

For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, ...