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- Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many…
- If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.
- She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
- But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that…
- I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
- 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…
- He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands…
- Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I…
- As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my…
- Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and…
- 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…
- I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice,…
- It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
- If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all…
- I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of…
- She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
- He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest…
- I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but…
- 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…
- Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever…
- I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got…
- 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…
- 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…
- You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling…
- probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man…
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