"I'm really not afraid of spooky things. When I have to look really frightened, I concentrate on scary things like losing my kittens or something like that."

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I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

— J. D. Salinger