D. Salinger
D. Salinger
running hope crazy
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 all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.
long one-day care
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
funny mom mother
Mothers are all slightly insane.
liking-someone sick people
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
jesus stupid heaven
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
hands people touching
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
hate writing phony
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
i-hate-you mean puddles
I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
goodbye sleep saying-goodbye
Sleep tight, ya morons!
mean scared feds
Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
education teacher thinking
You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
hate holden catchers
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
stars shining crafts
Are all your stars shining?
girl men cities
probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that