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Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do a..
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rule." Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it." Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right-I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game."
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But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes.
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It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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That killed me.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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There isn't a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you're with some girl that really knocks you out.
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You keep records of their troubles. You'll learn from them. If you want to Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education, it's history.
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The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied..
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I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in." Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not him though... "What the hellya reading?" "Goddamn book."
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Act, Zachary Martin Glass, when and where you want to, since you feel you must, but do it with all your might.
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Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quite horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. I spent the whole night necking with a terrible phony named Anne Louise..
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In the first place, I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the old foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn't have it in peace.
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Me, myself and I.
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La gente batte sempre le mani per le cose sbagliate.
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Khristovata molitva ima edna-edinstvena tsel. Da dari Khristovoto chuvstvo na vseki, koito se moli. Ne da ti spretne niakoe uiutnichko, presveto mestentse za randevuta s niakoi prelesten i ligav bozhestven personazh, koito shche te vzeme v pregr'dkite si i shche te osvobodi ot vsichkite ti zad'lzheniia, i shche progoni nadalech vsichkata ti Weltschmerzen i vsichki profesori t'p'rovtsi, t'i che nivga veche da ne se v'rnat. I, za Boga, ako im..
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And I hate to tell you,' he said, 'but I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school. You'll have to. You're a student - whether the idea appeals to you or not. You're in love with knowledge. And I think you'll find, once you get past all the Mr Vineses and their Oral Comp-' 'Mr Vinsons,' I said. He meant all the Mr Vinsons, not all the Mr Vineses. I shouldn't have interrupt..
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But it was worth it. The blonde was some dancer. She was one of the best dancers I ever danced with. I'm not kidding, some of these very stupid girls can really knock you out on a dance floor. You take a really smart girl, and half the time she's trying to lead you around the dance floor, or else she's such a lousy dancer, the best thing to do is stay at the table and just get drunk with her.
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I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things.
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Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. - Mr. Spencer
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Life is a gift horse in my opinion.
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I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.
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How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back "What?"
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The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on Earth.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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