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Book: Nine Stories
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
- Аз не съм твърде общителен антураж - каза тя и ме погледна да види дали знам значението на тази дума. Аз с нищо не й дадох да разбере това. - Но дойдох при вас само защото ми се видяхте крайно самотен. Вие имате крайно чувствително лице.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
What might happen, though, I might walk up the the edge of it, just to have a look at the bottom, for instance, and my sister might come up and sort of push me in. I could fracture my skull and die instantaneously. That could happen. My sister's only six, and she hasn't been a human being for very many lives, and she doesn't like me very much. That could happen, all right. What would be so tragic about it though? What's there to be afraid of, I mean? I'd just be doing what I was supposed to do, that's all, wouldn't I?
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
I never bore people I haven't known for at least a thousand years.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances. I may be an orange peel.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
Presently, some sort of fish was served to me on a plate with a small but noticeable trace of coagulated catsup along the border. Mme. Yoshoto asked me, in English--and her accent was unexpectedly charming--if I would prefer an egg, but I said, "Non, non, madame--merci!" I said I never ate eggs. M. Yoshoto leaned his newspaper against my water glass, and the three of us ate in silence; that is, they ate and I systematically swallowed in silence.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
I think I'd first just assemble all the children together and show them how to meditate. I'd try to show them how to find out who they are, not just what their names are and things like that...I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever told them.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
Soon the Laughing Man has amassed the largest personal fortune in the world. Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery- humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
Answer Professor Mandell's letter when you get a chance and the patience. Ask him not to send me any more poetry books. I already have enough for 1 year anyway. I am quite sick of it anyway. A man walks along the beach and unfortunately gets hit in the head by a cocoanut. His head unfortunately cracks open in two halves. Then his wife comes along the beach singing a song and sees the 2 halves and recognizes them and cries heart breakingly. That is exactly where I am tired of poetry. Supposing the lady just picks up the 2 halves and shouts into them very angrily "Stop that!" Do not mention this when you answer his letter, however. It is quite controversial and Mrs. Mandell is a poet besides.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
Oh. . . . It's too long a story. I never bore people I haven't know for at least a thousand years.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
They sang without instrumental accompaniment--or, more accurately in their case, without any interference. Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation. A couple of the very youngest children dragged the tempo a trifle, but in a way that only the composer's mother could have found fault with.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
Where before we Comanches had simply stared at her femaleness, we now glared at it. She smiled back at us. It was a shade disconcerting. Then the Chief took over, revealing what had formerly been a well-concealed flair for incompetence.
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J.D. Salinger _ Nine Stories
Every morning, in his extreme loneliness, the Laughing Man stole off {he was as graceful on his feet as a cat} to the dense forest surrounding the bandits' hideout. There he befriended any number and species of animals: dogs, white mice, eagles, lions, boa constrictors, wolves. Moreover, he removed his mask and spoke to them, softly, melodiously, in their own tongues. They did not think him ugly.
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