Sunday, December 11, 2016

The Catcher in the Rye


 



 "I think that one of these days...you 're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you."





 

 

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”






“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”





 



“But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.”






“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.”







“The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding”






“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”





“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.”






“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”

J.D. Salinger

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