#the Salingers

[emvisual]

Es viernes: cena y música.

Lo de hoy es un misterio. El grupo se llama The Salingers, pero nadie sabe quines son. Se sospecha que detrás hay algún miembro del mítico grupo francés Indochine.

La canción se titula Les 2 minutes de l'amour

*https://youtu.be/pc6NOKYAMtg

[oldshowbiz]

A Collection of Claptrap

[academia-lucifer]

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.

[thoughtkick]

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.

J.D. Salinger

[petitesombres]

Shay Mitchell via instagram

Cruise Louis Vuitton

[bnmxfld]

I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.

J.D. Salinger / The Catcher in the Rye

[deviika]

JD. Salinger // L. Frank Baum

[nobeerreviews]

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

-- J. D. Salinger

(Padova, Italy)

[thesargasmicgoddess]

"She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."

J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Prompt: The First Lines

Choose one of the first lines of these literary works and either create a new poem/story, or continue rewriting the story...

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1873)

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. —J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

It was a pleasure to burn. —Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they [electrocuted the Rosenbergs], and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless [Detroit day of January 1960]; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near [Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.] —Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)

Mama died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. —Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942)

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, [Colonel Aureliano Buendía] was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, 100 Years of Solitude (1967)

"Where's Papa going with that ax?" —E. B. White, Charlotte's Web (1952)

If this writing prompt inspires you in any way, please tag me, or send me a link. I would love to read your work!

More: The Last Lines (pt. 1) ⚜ (pt. 2) More: Writing Prompts

[perfectfeelings]

And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

[laurapetrie]

I beg your pardon. I love you very much. I’m nuts about you. I know it. I could love you all my life.

J. D. Salinger, "The Heart of a Broken Story" (1941)

[thoughtkick]

I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it.

J.D. Salinger // The Catcher in the Rye

[petitesombres]

Shay Mitchell via CB2

by inconnu

April 2024

[sighcomics]

14,000 feet in the air

[perfectquote]

And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey