“Oh, gentlemen, do you know, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything. Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?”
― Notes from the Underground
― Notes from the Underground
“It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I didn't care what kind of a job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I got up and went over and looked out the window. I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“. . . 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.”
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