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 t...
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.
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell...
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
In the first place, I hateactors. They never act like people. They just think theydo.
Act, Zachary Martin Glass, when and where you want to, since you feel you must, but do it with all your might.
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
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...
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
La gente batte sempre le mani per le cose sbagliate.
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...
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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...
That killed me.
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....
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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