D. Salinger
D. Salinger
beautiful human-behavior offers
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
mother insane
All mothers are slightly insane...
men trying strange
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
hate one-thing ifs
If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.
disappear chairs
Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.
girl night thinking
Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
death glasses probability
If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.
hate people secret
Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'
grateful invisible feels
I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.
confused firsts behavior
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.
hate player dope
I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
nice peaceful trouble
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
enough said knows
How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.
bleeding rooms ruins
Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.