You take a really sleepy man, Esmรฉ, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac โ with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.
J. D. SalingerIโm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody elseโs. Iโm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. Itโs disgusting.
J. D. SalingerThen the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.
J. D. SalingerShe 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.
J. D. SalingerThis fall I think you're riding forโit's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.
J. D. Salinger