D. Salinger
D. Salinger
strong likes-and-dislikes people
You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
reality voice worry
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 voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.
eye kissing noses
She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.
flower religion want
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
two guy tree
While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.
blue iron people
You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.
wall book exaggeration-is
The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.
crazy swear-to-god swear
But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
sarcastic sarcasm mood
I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
depressing mean boys
Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
laughing might wells
Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
sea islands phrases
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
thinking people missing
Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
strong likes-and-dislikes world
You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.