J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 11

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Talking, Lucky

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

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• Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.

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  Bleeding, Rooms, Ruins

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• That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

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  Thinking, Feelings, Trouble

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

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• After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

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  Doors, Orange, Mind

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

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• We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.

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  Nice, Two, Freak

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

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• I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

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  Crazy, Catchers, Holden

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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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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• 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.

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  Sex, Hot, Horsing Around

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

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• I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.

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  Running, Inspiration, Kids

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 22.

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• All mothers are slightly insane.

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  Mother, Insane

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

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  Life, Horse, Opinion

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

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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.

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  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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• 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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• It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

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  Brain, Littles, Tiny

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

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  School, Athletic, Together

  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

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  Mother, Winter, Thinking

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

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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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• 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.

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  Mean, Rainbow, Different

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