J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 10

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• In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Athletic, Together

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

  J. D. Salinger

  Depressing, Hurt, People

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• I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Hunger, Distraction

  "Whose Words Are They, Anyway?" by David Margolic, www.nytimes.com. November 01, 1987.

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• I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Opposites, Scare, Not Afraid

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Liars, Lying, Literature

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

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  Sex, Mind, Saws

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Trying, Strange

  J. D. Salinger (2016). “J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.32, Melville House

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• I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Felt

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• People never believe you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, People, Literature

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so!

  J. D. Salinger

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God.

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  Sex, Swear To God, Hot

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Rainbow, Different

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• This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

  J. D. Salinger

  Ego, Finals, Buddy

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

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  Religious, Agony, People

  "Zooey (1957)". "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1961.

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• You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

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  Heart, Mean, Eye

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Winter, Thinking

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them

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  Thinking, Ice, Imagination

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• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

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  Stupid, Things To Do, Knows

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.

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  Fall, Men, Thinking

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• What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

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  Suicide, Stupid, Jumping

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

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  Mean, People, Actors

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.

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  Sexy, Strong Women, Mean

  J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Teaching, Reading

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.

  J. D. Salinger

  Army, Nazi, Said

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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