And I hate to tell you... but I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in a school. You'll have to. You're a student—whether the idea appe...
And I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and...
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances. I may be an orange peel.
Ще си вземем под наем смокинги и тържествено ще се появим на вратата към сцената с букет кученца.
But I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one. I think that if he titters at male writers who wear invisi...
What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. He said it was so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this g...
Идва вълна! - извика Сибил, поуплашена.- Няма да ѝ обърнем внимание. Ще я отминем с презрение – каза младият мъж. – Ние сме двама високомерни.Here comes a wave, Sybil said nervously.We'll ignore it. W...
O parvalhão reparou nela e aproximou-se para a cumprimentar. Haviam de ouvir a maneira como se cumprimentaram. Haviam de pensar que não se viam há vinte anos. Haviam de pensar que tomavam banho na mes...
لا تروي ما حدث لك مثلما فعلت أنا، لأي إنسان، لأنك حين تفعل ذلك فلسوف تفتقد كل الناس .
— Ти все нещо не харесваш.Тези думи още повече ме натъжиха.— Харесвам, харесвам някои неща. Разбира се, че харесвам. Не говори така. Дявол да го вземе, защо говориш така?— Защото не харесваш. Никое уч...
Само се надявам един ден - за предпочитане, когато и двамата сме мъртво пияни - да си поговорим за това.
Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the mornin...
You give me a royal pain in the ass if you want to know the truth.
Where before we Comanches had simply stared at her femaleness, we now glared at it. She smiled back at us. It was a shade disconcerting. Then the Chief took over, revealing what had formerly been a we...
Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment, or peace, instead of money or prestige or fame or any of those things - doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as...
It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
It's just that if I'd had any guts at all, I wouldn't have gone back to college at all this year. I don't know. I mean it's all the most incredible farce.
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.