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.
J.D. SalingerTags: self
Teddy looked at him directly for the first time.
Are you a poet?' he asked.
A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas, no. Why do you ask?'
I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.' "
- Teddy and Nicholson in "Teddy" (Nine Stories)
И вообще, даже если ты все время спасал бы людям жизнь, откуда бы ты знал, ради чего ты это делаешь — ради того, чтобы на самом деле спасти жизнь человеку, или ради того, чтобы стать знаменитым адвокатом, чтобы тебя все хлопали по плечу и поздравляли, когда ты выиграешь этот треклятый процесс, — словом, как в кино, в дрянных фильмах. Как узнать, делаешь ли ты все это напоказ или по-настоящему, липа все это или не липа? Нипочем не узнать!
J.D. SalingerВсе эти смазливые ублюдки одинаковы. Причешутся, прилижутся — и бросают тебя одного.
J.D. SalingerНастанет день, и тебе придется решать, куда идти. И сразу надо идти туда, куда ты решил. Немедленно. Ты не имеешь права терять ни минуты. Тебе это нельзя.
J.D. SalingerWhere I lived at Pencey, I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and seniors. I was a junior. My roommate was a senior. It was named after this guy Ossenburger that went to Pencey. He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business after he got out of Pencey. What he did, he started these undertaking parlors all over the country that you could get members of your family buried for about five bucks apiece. You should see old Ossenburger. He probably just shoves them in a sack and dumps them in the river. Anyway, he gave Pencey a pile of dough, and they named our wing alter him. The first football game of the year, he came up to school in this big goddam Cadillac, and we all had to stand up in the grandstand and give him a locomotive—that's a cheer. Then, the next morning, in chapel, he made a speech that lasted about ten hours. He started off with about fifty corny jokes, just to show us what a regular guy he was. Very big deal. Then he started telling us how he was never ashamed, when he was in some kind of trouble or something, to get right down his knees and pray to God. He told us we should always pray to God—talk to Him and all—wherever we were. He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs. The only good part of his speech was right in the middle of it. He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hotshot and all, then all of a sudden this guy sitting in the row in front of me, Edgar Marsalla, laid this terrific fart. It was a very crude thing to do, in chapel and all, but it was also quite amusing. Old Marsalla. He damn near blew the roof off. Hardly anybody laughed out loud, and old Ossenburger made out like he didn't even hear it, but old Thurmer, the headmaster, was sitting right next to him on the rostrum and all, and you could tell he heard it. Boy, was he sore. He didn't say anything then, but the next night he made us have compulsory study hall in the academic building and he came up and made a speech. He said that the boy that had created the disturbance in chapel wasn't fit to go to Pencey. We tried to get old Marsalla to rip off another one, right while old Thurmer was making his speech, but be wasn't in the right mood.
J.D. SalingerTags: holden
God, could that dopey girl dance. Buddy Singer and his stinking band was playing 'Just One of Those Things' and even they couldn't ruin it entirely. It's a swell song. I didn't try any trick stuff while we danced--I hate a guy that does a lot of show-off tricky stuff on the dance floor--but I was moving her around plenty, and she stayed with me. The funny thing is, I thought she was enjoying it, too, till all of a sudden she came out with this very dumb remark. "I and my girl friends saw Peter Lorre last night," she said. "The movie actor. In person. He was buyin' a newspaper. He's cute."
"You're lucky," I told her. "You're really lucky. You know that?" She was really a moron. But what a dancer.
Пропасть, в которую ты летишь, — ужасная пропасть, опасная. Тот, кто в нее падает, никогда не почувствует дна. Он падает, падает без конца. Это бывает с людьми, которые в какой-то момент своей жизни стали искать то, чего им не может дать их привычное окружение. Вернее, они думали, что в привычном окружении они ничего для себя найти не могут. И они перестали искать. Перестали искать, даже не делая попытки что-нибудь найти. Ты следишь за моей мыслью?
J.D. SalingerПонимаете, чаще всего ты сам не знаешь, что тебе интереснее, пока не начнешь рассказывать про неинтересное.
J.D. SalingerПо-моему, надо дать человеку выговориться, раз он начал интересно рассказывать и увлекся. Очень люблю, когда человек с увлечением рассказывает.
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