— Знаеш ли какъв ми се ще да стана? Искам да кажа, ако ми дадат да си избера, дявол да го вземе....все си представям малки дечица да си играят на някаква игра в една голяма ръжена нива. Хиляди деца —...
Този ден — бог е свидетел на това — беше забележителен не само с най-неочаквани знамения и поличби, но и с широко използване на писмената реч като средство за предаване на мисли. Скачаш в препълнена к...
Години наред ние, седемте деца в нашето семейство, разполагащо само с една баня, имахме малко досадния, но полезен навик да си пишем бележки с парченца сапун върху огледалцето на аптечката. Обикновено...
You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddamn sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddamn phenomenal worl...
You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneezeIn this goddam phenomenal world.
You know, I’m the only one in this family who has no problems, Zooey said. And you know why? Because any time I’m feeling blue, or puzzled, what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in th...
You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, a...
You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at gol...
Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo. When I was finished, Boo Boo said flatly (but looking over at Seymour) that the story...
Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words Dear God, life is hell. Nothing led up to or away from it. Alone on the page, and in the sickly stillness of the r...
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. [...] They who work selfishly for results are miserable. — Bhagavad Gita.
Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?
Where I lived at Pencey, I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and seniors. I was a junior. My roommate was a senior. It was named after this guy Ossenburg...
When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't understand Jesus, you can't understand his prayer - you don't get the prayer at all, you ju...
When they argue, there can be no danger of a permanent rift, because they're Mother and Daughter. A terrible and beautiful phenomenon to watch.
What happened was, I got the idea in my head-and I could not get it out ㅡ that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mea...
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. Tha...
We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both wit...
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
Undoubtedly, though, what I'm really getting at is this: Since the bridegroom's permanent retirement from the scene, I haven't been able to think of anybody whom I'd care to send out to look for horse...