Showing posts with label Salinger; J.D.. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 24, 2007

"I feel, at least, that I know him-you-quite well enough to guess what kind of well-meant gesture might be welcomed from me right now...I privately say to you, old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((())))."

Seymour by J.D. Salinger

Sunday, May 13, 2007

"I often feel a rather excessive pull toward people who don't overapologize."

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger

Sunday, March 11, 2007

"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. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger