Jul 14
this is babe gladwaller to me
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this is babe gladwaller to me
I've come to the realization that I could trust Andrew Garfield not to ruin Babe Gladwaller for me/us if anyone ever dared/got the permission to make him into a film.
This is important stuff, you guys. This is what they call personal growth.
But my point, Mattie - if I have a point, Mattie - is this: kind of try to live up to the best that's in you. If you give your word to people, let them know that they're getting the word of the best. If you room with some dopey girl at college, try to make her less dopey. If you're standing outside a theater and some old gal comes up selling gum, give her a buck if you've got a buck - but only if you can do it without patronizing her. That's the trick, baby. I could tell you a lot, Mat, but I wouldn't be sure that I'm right. You're a little girl, but you understand me. You're going to be smart when you grow up. But if you can't be smart and a swell girl, too, then I don't want to see you grow up. Be a swell girl, Mat.
J.D. Salinger, "Last Day of the Last Furlough" (1944)
'All right, you're so smart," said Vincent. 'If A has three apples, and B leaves at three o'clock, how long will it take C to row five thousand miles upstream, bounded on the north by Chile?... Don't tell her, sergeant. The child must learn to do things by herself.'
J.D. Salinger, "Last Day of the Last Furlough" (1944)
[T]he longer I love her, the oftener I whip out my dumb heart like crazy X-Ray pictures, the greater the urge to trace the bruises.
J.D. Salinger, "Last Day of the Last Furlough" (1944)
"But if we came back, if German men came back, if British men came back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroism and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, the future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm." - Babe Gladwaller