#jd salinger
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” J.D. Salinger (A Girl I Knew)
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“i’m just going through a phase right now. everybody goes through phases and all, don’t they?”
is there even a catcher in the rye fandom on tumblr?? lol i have no idea, but if so i hope y'all/the general public like this one
“È una partita persa, comunque. Anche avendo un milione di anni per farlo, uno non riuscirebbe a cancellare nemmeno metà dei «vaffanculo» scritti sui muri di tutto il mondo. È impossibile.
_ Il giovane Holden, J. D. Salinger.
Book moodboard : J.D. Salinger - “The Catcher in the Rye” (1951)
“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.”
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No sé porqué hay que dejar de querer a una persona solo porque se ha muerto. Sobre todo si era cien veces mejor que los que siguen viviendo.
-J.D Salinger
‘You know that song “If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye”? I’d like -’
‘It’s “If a body meet a body coming through the rye”!’ old Phoebe said. ‘It’s a poem. By Robert Burns.’
(…)
‘Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. 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.’
J.D.Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Lei non stava facendo nulla che io potessi vedere, eccetto stare li in piedi appoggiata alla ringhiera del balcone, tenendo insieme l’universo.
(J.D.Salinger)
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It was a long time before X could set the note aside, let alone lift Esmé’s father’s wristwatch out of the box. When he finally did lift it out, he saw that its crystal had been broken in transit. He wondered if the watch was otherwise undamaged, but he hadn’t the courage to wind it and find out. He just sat with it in his hand for another long period. Then, suddenly, almost ecstatically, he felt sleepy.
You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac - with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.
‘For Esmé - with Love and Squalor’, J.D. Salinger
(1950)
“When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.”
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
I re-read The Cather in the Rye at least once every two months. Not crazy, just miss Holden’s voice.
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“Let’s just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible.”
J.D. Salinger
“Let’s just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible.”
J.D. Salinger
“I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
–J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to somebody I’m not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
–J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
