"Stop swearing and tell me otherwise. Say for example you want to be. Scientist or lawyer or whatever.
- Scientific no. For science I'm a mess.
- then attorney and dad.
- I guess that would be nice, but I do not like. I would like if the lawyers were out there actually saving lives of innocent types, but that never do. What they do is win a lot of money, play golf and bridge, buy cars, drink dry martinis and given much importance. Also, if you really put to defend innocent guys, how do you know what because you want to save their lives or because you want everyone you consider a great lawyer and give you pats on the back and congratulate the journalists when the trial just as happens in all this stupidity of movies? How do you know yourself that you're not lying? That's bad, you never know.
(...)
You know what I want to be? You know what I would be true if I could choose?
(...)
Many times I imagine there are a lot of children playing in a field of rye. Thousands of children. And they are alone, I mean no no more watching them. Only me. I'm on the edge of a cliff and my job is to prevent children from falling on him. As they start running without looking where they go, I go to where they are and the lame. That's what I'd do all the time. Supervised. I would be the catcher in the rye. Will seem silly, but the only thing I really like to do. I know it's crazy.
- Scientific no. For science I'm a mess.
- then attorney and dad.
- I guess that would be nice, but I do not like. I would like if the lawyers were out there actually saving lives of innocent types, but that never do. What they do is win a lot of money, play golf and bridge, buy cars, drink dry martinis and given much importance. Also, if you really put to defend innocent guys, how do you know what because you want to save their lives or because you want everyone you consider a great lawyer and give you pats on the back and congratulate the journalists when the trial just as happens in all this stupidity of movies? How do you know yourself that you're not lying? That's bad, you never know.
(...)
You know what I want to be? You know what I would be true if I could choose?
(...)
Many times I imagine there are a lot of children playing in a field of rye. Thousands of children. And they are alone, I mean no no more watching them. Only me. I'm on the edge of a cliff and my job is to prevent children from falling on him. As they start running without looking where they go, I go to where they are and the lame. That's what I'd do all the time. Supervised. I would be the catcher in the rye. Will seem silly, but the only thing I really like to do. I know it's crazy.
JD Salinger (New York, January 1, 1919 - Cornish, New Hampshire
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