“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”

کتاب Nine Stories

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“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”

― کتاب Nine Stories

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“I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.”

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“If I were God, I certainly wouldn’t want people to love me sentimentally. It’s too unreliable.”

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“She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.”

― Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger epub

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“You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don’t use logic when I do it. Logic’s the first thing you have to get rid of.”

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“Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words “Dear God, life is hell.” Nothing led up to or away from it. Alone on the page, and in the sickly stillness of the room, the words appeared to have the stature of an uncontestable, even classic indictment. X stared at the page for several minutes, trying, against heavy odds, not to be taken in. Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote down under the inscription, in English, “Fathers and teachers, I ponder, ‘What is Hell?’ I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

Nine Stories کتاب

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 “He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.”

― Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger epub

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“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”

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“They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It’s not so good, that way.”

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“She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.”

― Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger epub

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“You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?’ he asked. ‘You know what was in that apple? Logic. Logic and intellectual stuff. That was all that was in it. So—this is my point—what you have to do is vomit it up if you want to see things as they really are….’

The trouble is,’ Teddy said, ‘most people don’t want to see things the way they are. They don’t even want to stop getting born and dying all the time, instead of stopping and staying with God, where it’s really nice.’ He reflected. ‘I never saw such a bunch of apple-eaters,’ he said. He shook his head.”

کتاب Nine Stories

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“You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.”

مجموعه داستان Nine Stories 

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“Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.”

― Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger epub

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“Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.”

― Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

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“Did you see more glass?”

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“Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.”

― Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger epub

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“I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.”
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