...she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and…
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The Catcher In The Rye
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of ch
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
I know. I’m very hard to talk to. I realize that.
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 you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.
You fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
I know. I’m very hard to talk to. I realize that.
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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 stimulated to know. Many, many [people] have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you a…
I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
If you want to know the truth, I don’t know what I think about it. I’m sorry I told so many people about it. All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about…It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.