The catcher in the rye.

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「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.」        ——J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye Quotes

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”   (Chap.3)

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”   (Chap.26)

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”   (Chap.16)