Quotes of the Week - Oct 5, 2008:
"The reality is we're in an urgent situation and the consequences
will get bigger each day we do not act." -- US President George Bush,
on efforts to resurrect the $700 billion financial rescue package aimed
at stabilizing financial markets.
"Sixty-seven percent of the Republican Conference decided to put
political ideology ahead of the best interest of our great nation."
-- U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn, a Democrat from South Carolina,
after the House voted against the $700-billion bailout package.
"I go three, maybe four times a year to get tested for sexually transmitted
infections and most of the time I don't even need to." -- Singer
and TV presenter Kelly Osborne.
Authors:
The Catcher in the Rye Quotes, Famous Catcher in the Rye Quotes
All
these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys
carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole
bunch of them - thousands of them - singing "Come
All Ye Faithful" like mad. Big deal. It's supposed to be
religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can't
see anything religious or pretty, for God's sake, about a bunch
of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage. When they
all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could
tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette of something.
I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept
saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. I said old
Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 18
Anyway,
I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's
ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of
it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 18
People
never give your message to anybody. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 20
Boy,
when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when
I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in
the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam
cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your
stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when
you're dead? Nobody. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 20
When
the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick
a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went with them a
couple of times, but I cut it out. In the first place, I don't
enjoy seeing him in that crazy cemetery. Surrounded by dead
guys and tombstones and all. It wasn't too bad when the sun
was out, but twice - twice - we were there when it started
to rain. It was awful. It rained on his lousy tombstone, and
it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the
place. All the visitors that were visiting the cemetery started
running like hell over to their cars. That's what nearly drove
me crazy. All the visitors could get in their cars and turn
on their radios and all and then go someplace nice for dinner
- everybody except Allie. I couldn't stand it. I know it's only
his body and all that's in the cemetery, and his soul's in Heaven
and all that crap, but I couldn't stand it anyway. I just wished
he wasn't there. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 20
It's
funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands
and they'll do practically anything you want them to. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 21
'You
know that song, "If a body catch a body comin' through
the rye"?...'
'It's "If a body meet a body coming through the
rye"!' old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield and Phoebe in Chapter 22
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 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. The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield in Chapter 22
I
have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible,
terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may
be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar
hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played
football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough
education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he
and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing
paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know. The Catcher in the Rye Mr. Antolini in Chapter 24
This
fall I think you're riding for - it'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. The Catcher in the Rye Mr. Antolini in Chapter 24
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