Цитаты из книги «The Catcher in the Rye»
«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. I know it's crazy.»
«I’m a goddam spendthrift at heart. What I don’t spend, I lose.»
«If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the “Fuck you” signs in the world. It’s impossible.»
«The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.»
«Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.»
«Don't ever tell anybodyanything. If you do, you start missing everybody.»
«A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.»
«I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive, in fact.»
