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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

J. D. Salinger

Girl, Mean, Dumb

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

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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.

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Thinking, Necks, Minutes

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

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Felt

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

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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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I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

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Jesus, Atheist, Play

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

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It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.

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Uncles, Father, Nice

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

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It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

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Window, Sophisticated, Phony

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.

J. D. Salinger

Jesus, Prayer, Grandfather

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

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I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.

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Zoos, New York, Home

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

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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

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Girl, Horse, Fun

"The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1951.

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I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while—I admit it—but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them.

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Couple, Hate, Mean

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

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You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.

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Men, Becoming, Chance

"Salinger Was Playing Our Song" by John Romano, archive.nytimes.com. June 03, 1979.

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The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

J. D. Salinger

Dark, Doubt, Cards

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

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And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)

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Usual, Horror, Seats

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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

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Degrees, Want, Radio

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

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I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

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Thinking, Goal, Words Of Wisdom

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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.

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Light, Dust, Touching

"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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He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.

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Eye, Boys, Two

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That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

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Swear To God, Terrible, Madmen

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

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I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).

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Knows

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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

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Writing, Pleasure, Publishing

J. D. Salinger (2016). “J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.29, Melville House

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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

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Meditation, Use, Firsts

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

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While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.

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Two, Guy, Tree

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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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Born: January 1, 1919
Died: January 27, 2010
Occupation: Writer
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