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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
"Jeg vil ikke påstå", sa han, "at bare høyt utdannede og lærde mennesker er i stand til å bidra med noe verdifullt i verden. Slik er det ikke. Det jeg mener, er at høyt utdannede og lærde mennesker, dersom de er begavede og kreative i utgangspunktet - noe som uheldigvis sjelden er tilfellet - som regel etterlater seg en uendelig mye mer verdifull arv enn de som bare er er begavede og kreative. De uttrykker seg som regel klarere, og er lidenskapelig opptatt av å følge sine tanker til ende. Og - viktigst av alt - ni av ti ganger viser de mer ydmykhet enn den uskolerte tenkeren."
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.
What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.
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.