J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 10

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• The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

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  Twelve, Sawyer, Toms

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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.

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  Ego, Finals, Buddy

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

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• But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

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  Mother, Memorable, Mean

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

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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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• 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.

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  Book, Teaching, Reading

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

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• There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.

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  Fats

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

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• There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

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  Secret, Christ, Fats

  Franny and Zooey (1961). Ellipsis in the original.

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• She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.

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  Cities, Whole

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• Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.

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  Morning, Mistake, Nice

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• Do it for the fat lady!

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  Fats

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• Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all.

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  Interesting, Nerves, Trouble

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

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• She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.

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  Reality, Voice, Worry

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• She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.

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  Eye, Kissing, Noses

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

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• You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.

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  Strong, Likes And Dislikes, World

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• I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

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  Thinking, People, Alive

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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.

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  Army, Nazi, Said

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

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• For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

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  Phones, Hands, Joy

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

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• You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze In this goddam phenomenal world.

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  Running, Talking, Lucky

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

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• I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.

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  Thinking, Want, Minutes

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

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• I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

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  Two, Looks, Ugly

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

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• The sentence im reading is terrific.

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  Reading, Sentences, Terrific

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• I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

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  Jerk

  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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• 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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• It’s history. It’s poetry.

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

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