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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
1,167 people liked it

"در هر حال، من بدون اينكه كراواتى چيزى زده باشم، داشتم مى‌رفتم به طرف بالاى خيابان پنجم. بعد ناگهان چيز خيلى عجيبى اتفاق افتاد. هر دفعه كه سر يك چهارراه مى‌رسيدم تا پايم را مى‌گذاشتم به كف خيابان اين احساس به من دست مى‌داد كه هيچ‌وقت به آن طرف خيابان نخواهم رسيد. خيال مى‌كردم كه دارم مى‌روم توى زمين، آن‌قدر كه رفته‌رفته كس ديگرى مرا نخواهد ديد. پسر، خيلى ترس برم داشت.شروع كردم به شرشر عرق‌ريختن. پيراهن و لباس زير و همه جاى بدنم خيس خيس شد. بعد شروع كردم كار ديگرى بكنم. هر دفعه كه سر يك چهارراه مى‌رسيدم اين‌طور وانمود مى‌كردم كه دارم با برادرم الى حرف مى‌‌زنم. بهش مى‌گفتم الى، نذار من سر به نيست بشم. الى، نذار من سر به نيست بشم. الي، نذار من سر به نيست بشم. خواهش مى‌كنم، الي. و بعد موقعى كه به آن طرف خيابان مى‌رسيدم بدون اينكه سر به نيست شده باشم از او تشكر مى‌كردم"
— جی‌دی‌سالینجر

tags: ناطور, دشت
1 person liked it

"Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them."
— Paul Auster

30 people liked it

"If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!"
— Nick Cave

11 people liked it

"از همین می ترسم. به یه چیزی یا کسی عادت می کنی، اونوقت اون چیز یا اون کس قالت می گذاره. اون وقت دیگه چیزی برات باقی نمی مونه. می فهمی چی می خوام بگم؟.... اونهایی رو که می گذارن و می رن دوست ندارم. اینه که اول خودم می گذارم می رم.این جوری خاطر جمع تره.

خداحافظ گاری کوپر"
— رومن گاری/Romain Gary

40 people liked it

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
— J.D. Salinger

249 people liked it

"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."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
864 people liked it

"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)

tags: catcher, caulfield, cliff, crazy, holden, hope, kids, run, rye, save
246 people liked it

"The most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid."
— J.D. Salinger (Nine Stories)

tags: blue, daumier-smith-s, de, happiness, joy, nine, period, stories
108 people liked it

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

167 people liked it

"Mothers are all slightly insane."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

103 people liked it

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy"
— J.D. Salinger

tags: happiness
120 people liked it

"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."
— J.D. Salinger

112 people liked it

"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. "
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: life
83 people liked it

"People always clap for the wrong reasons."
— Holden Caulfield ( The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger)

60 people liked it

"That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: girls, holden-s, view
83 people liked it

"It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. "
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

54 people liked it

"Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad."
— J.D. Salinger

35 people liked it

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.

Quoted in J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" "
— Wilhelm Stekel

tags: immaturity, selflessness
53 people liked it

"It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

27 people liked it

"I was trying to feel some kind of 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."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

39 people liked it

"When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

tags: death
65 people liked it

"It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

24 people liked it

"Goddamn money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

23 people liked it

"...when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

56 people liked it

"Money is sad shit"
— Richard Brautigan (The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing)

19 people liked it

"It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not."
— Paul Auster

18 people liked it

"When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: bookworms, heavenly, judgment, reading, rewards
141 people liked it

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: confidence
105 people liked it

"Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy."
— Virginia Woolf (Orlando)

tags: sadness
63 people liked it

"I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer? "
— Virginia Woolf

34 people liked it

"تو هم به من فکر می‌کنی
آن‌قدر
که من به تو؟"
— Richard Brautigan

13 people liked it

"لحظاتی هست
استخوان های اشیاء می پوسد
و فرسودگی از در و دیوار می بارد
لحظاتی هست
نه آواز گنجشک حمل
نه صدایی صمیمی از آن طرف سیم
و نه نگاه مادر در قاب
قانعت نمی کند
زندگی قانعت نمی کند
و تو به اندکی مرگ احتیاج داری

من گرگ خیالبافی هستم"
— الیاس علوی

14 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
15,783 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,333 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,818 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,512 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,922 people liked it

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
1,195 people liked it

"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
— Woody Allen

tags: god, humor, mankind, silence
176 people liked it

"To you, I'm an atheist.
To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
— Woody Allen

tags: absurd, atheism, humor
366 people liked it

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
— Woody Allen

95 people liked it

"از بهار تقویم می‌ماند
از من
استخوان‌هایی که تو را دوست داشتند
"
— الیاس علوی- من گرگ خیالبافی هستم

11 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
2,921 people liked it

"...
کاش آن‌که استخوان‌هایم را می‌لیسد
شعرهایم را از بر نبود
...
ما
کاشفان کوچه‌های بن‌بستیم
حرف‌های خسته‌ای داریم

این‌بار
پیامبری بفرست
که تنها گوش کند

"
— سطرها در تاریکی جا عوض می‌کنند- گروس عبدالملکیان

14 people liked it

"اما به من بگو

اين اشك‌ها را به شانه‌هاي كه بسپارم؟

كدام دست دلتنگي‌ام را مي‌فشارد

كدام صدا مرا به خود مي‌خواند:

- " برگرد

رفتن تنها خطر دارد""
— الیاس علوی

10 people liked it

"آنکه مي‌گويد دوست‌ات مي‌دارم
دل ِ اندُه‌گين ِ شبي‌ست
که مهتاب‌اش را مي‌جويد."
— احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou

13 people liked it

"چراغی در دست
چراغی در دلم.
زنگار روحم را صیقل می زنم
اینه ئی برابر اینه ات می گذارم
تا از تو
ابدیتی بسازم.

"
— احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou

20 people liked it

"میان آفتاب های همیشه
زیبائی تو
لنگری ست -
نگاهت شکست ستمگری ست -
و چشمانت با من گفتند
که فردا
روز دیگری ست
"
— احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou

9 people liked it

"بیا تا آسمان هنوز گریه می‌کند
روی سنگ‌فرش خیابان برقصیم
حرف مردم به یک استکان چای داغ نمی‌ارزد
وقتی از موهای خیس من
شعر چکه کند
روی لب‌های تو"
— لیلا نوحی

8 people liked it

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