The thing is, though, I don't like the idea. It stinks, if you analyze it. I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supp...
The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?
The connection was so bad, and I couldn't talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back 'What?' I've been reading a miscel...
That was the worst. What happened was, I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that college was just one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth...
That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all. ...lots of time you don't what interests you most till yo...
She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voic...
She cried for fully five minutes. She cried without trying to suppress any of the noisier manifestations of grief and confusion, with all the convulsive throat sounds that a hysterical child makes whe...
Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong?
One of the thousand reasons I quit going to the theater when I was about twenty was that I resented like hell filing out of the theater just because some playwright was forever slamming down his silly...
Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer--that is, if you want to, and if you look for it and wait for it--to the kind of information that will be very, v...
Oh how nice! the lady said. But not corny. She was just nice & all. I must tell Ernest we met, she said. May I ask your name, dear? Rudolf Schmidt, I told her. I didn't feel like giving her my whole l...
No, there wouldn't be, Holden said. It'd be entirely different. Sally looked at him; he had contradicted her so quietly. It wouldn't be the same at all. We'd have to go downstairs in elevators with su...
No importa que la sensación sea triste o hasta desagradable, pero cuando me voy de un sitio me gusta darme cuenta de que me marcho. Si no luego me da más pena todavía.
My lips were quivering slightly, like two fools.Устните ми потрепваха като двама глупаци.
My big trouble is, I always sort of think whoever I'm necking is a pretty intelligent person. It hasn't got a goddam thing to do with it, but I keep thinking it anyway.
Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.
Los que de verdad me vuelven loco son esos libros que cuando acabas de leerlos piensas que ojalá el autor fuera amigo tuyo y pudieras llamarle por teléfono cuando quisieras.
Last month, Dean Sheeter (whose name usually transports Franny when I mention it) approached me with his gracious smile and bull whip, and I am now lecturing to the faculty, their wives, and a few opp...
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.
It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is,...