D. Salinger
D. Salinger
knows
I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know)....
people hot discussion
People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.
spiritual mean thinking
I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.
writing pleasure publishing
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
new-york prayer loneliness
I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.
meditation firsts dimensions
You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
brother bats green
My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat
window phony holden-caulfield
I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
old-friends bouquets blooming
I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
love girl confused
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.
girl memorable names
Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.
deaf mute
I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
beautiful baby home
Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.
girl mean dumb
I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield