“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
“Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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