D. Salinger
D. Salinger
sleep bed
I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.
army nazi said
He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.
brother bats green
My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat
girl moving thinking
I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.
glasses
Did you see more glass?
stars giving stories
Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.
want catchers
The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
success boys games
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
suicide bitter said
He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
happiness running grief
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
want radio degrees
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
messiness arrangements
He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.
sense-of-humor said
He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
kings stills ifs
Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.