J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 10

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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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• I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.

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  Tired, Character, Together Again

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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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• 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

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Ice, Imagination

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• Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Horse, Opinion

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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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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• 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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• It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.

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  Mother, Fun, Crazy

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

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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.

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  Opposites, Scare, Not Afraid

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

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• But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have
  on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.

  J. D. Salinger

  Pain, Doe, Earth

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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

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  Artist, Hunger, Distraction

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

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• All mothers are slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Insane

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• My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Necks, Minutes

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• I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield

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  Girl, Mean, Dumb

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

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• I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

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  Writing, Men, Thinking

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Baby, Home

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

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  Children, My Best Friend, Facts

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sex, Hot, Horsing Around

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 9

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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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• If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Grandfather

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

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• Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.

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  Dirty, Knees, Moron

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

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• Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

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  Hate, People, Secret

  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!

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  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.

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  Blue, Iron, People

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

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