"He was always asking you to do him a big favor. You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real got-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themselves, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny in a way" (27-28).
"He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs."(17)
"He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs."(17)
“'Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.’… Game, my ass. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game all right- i’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game." (8)
"I sat there for about a half hour after he left. I mean I just sat in my chair, not doing anything. I kept thinking about Jane, and about Stradlater having a date with her and all. It made mess nervous I nearly went crazy. I already told you what a sexy bastard Stradlater was." (39)
“People always think something’s all true. I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am- I really do- but people never notice it. People never notice anything.” (12)
I am the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I am on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I am going. I am liable to say I am going to the opera. It's terrible. So when I told old Spencer I had to go the gym to get my equipment and stuff, that was a sheer lie. I don't even keep my goddam equipment in the gym. (16)
"Oh I have a few qualms, all right. Sure...but not too many. Not yet anyway. I guess it hasn't really hit me yet. It takes things a while to hit me. All I'm doing right now is thinking about going home on Wednesday. I'm a moron." (17)
"Absolutely nothing," he said over again. That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time. Then he said it three times. "But absolutely nothing. I doubt very much if you even opened your textbook even once the whole term. Did you? Tell the truth boy."
"Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort if funny, in a way" (p. 28).
“My brother gave me a book by Ring Lardner for my birthday, just before I went to Pencey. It has these very funny, crazy plays in it, and then it had this one story about a traffic cop that falls in love with this very cute girl that’s always speeding. Only, he’s married, the cop, so he can’t marry her or anything. Then this girl gets killed, because she’s always speeding. That story just about killed me. What I like best is a book that’s at least funny once in awhile.” (p. 22)
“ One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That’s all. They were coming in the goddam window. For instance, they had this headmaster Mr. Haas, that was the phoniest bastard I even met in my life. Ten times worse than Thurmer.” (Page 19)
“ I’m 17 now, and sometimes I act like I’m 13. It’s really ironical, because I’m six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. I really do. The one side of my head - the right side- is full of millions of gray hairs. I’ve had them ever since I was a kid.” (Page 13)
“I don't think I'll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud. I wouldn't've read it out loud to him if he'd written it--I really wouldn't. In the first place, I'd only written that damn note so that he wouldn't feel too bad about flunking me.”
"He was always asking you to do him a big favor. You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real got-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themselves, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny in a way" (27-28).
ReplyDelete"He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs."(17)
ReplyDelete"He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs."(17)
ReplyDelete“'Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.’… Game, my ass. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game all right- i’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game." (8)
ReplyDelete"I sat there for about a half hour after he left. I mean I just sat in my chair, not doing anything. I kept thinking about Jane, and about Stradlater having a date with her and all. It made mess nervous I nearly went crazy. I already told you what a sexy bastard Stradlater was." (39)
ReplyDelete“People always think something’s all true. I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am- I really do- but people never notice it. People never notice anything.” (12)
ReplyDeleteI am the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I am on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I am going. I am liable to say I am going to the opera. It's terrible. So when I told old Spencer I had to go the gym to get my equipment and stuff, that was a sheer lie. I don't even keep my goddam equipment in the gym. (16)
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ReplyDelete"Oh I have a few qualms, all right. Sure...but not too many. Not yet anyway. I guess it hasn't really hit me yet. It takes things a while to hit me. All I'm doing right now is thinking about going home on Wednesday. I'm a moron." (17)
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ReplyDelete"Absolutely nothing," he said over again. That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time. Then he said it three times. "But absolutely nothing. I doubt very much if you even opened your textbook even once the whole term. Did you? Tell the truth boy."
ReplyDelete"Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort if funny, in a way" (p. 28).
ReplyDelete“My brother gave me a book by Ring Lardner for my birthday, just before I went to Pencey. It has these very funny, crazy plays in it, and then it had this one story about a traffic cop that falls in love with this very cute girl that’s always speeding. Only, he’s married, the cop, so he can’t marry her or anything. Then this girl gets killed, because she’s always speeding. That story just about killed me. What I like best is a book that’s at least funny once in awhile.” (p. 22)
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ReplyDelete“ One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That’s all. They were coming in the goddam window. For instance, they had this headmaster Mr. Haas, that was the phoniest bastard I even met in my life. Ten times worse than Thurmer.” (Page 19)
“ I’m 17 now, and sometimes I act like I’m 13. It’s really ironical, because I’m six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. I really do. The one side of my head - the right side- is full of millions of gray hairs. I’ve had them ever since I was a kid.” (Page 13)
ReplyDelete“I don't think I'll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud. I wouldn't've read it out loud to him if he'd written it--I really wouldn't. In the first place, I'd only written that damn note so that he wouldn't feel too bad about flunking me.”
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