J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 11

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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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• John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

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  Scarves, Please

  "From Salinger, A New Dash Of Mystery" by Michiko Kakutani, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 1997.

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• Do it for the fat lady!

  J. D. Salinger

  Fats

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• Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this "French-inhale" style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.

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  Men, Enormous Quantities, Style

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

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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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• If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.

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  Stuff, Mood, Ifs

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

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

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  Knows

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

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

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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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• There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

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  Thinking, Doing You, World

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

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  Cities, Whole

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

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  Guy, Toilet Seat, Toilets

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

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• They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

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  Way, Reason

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

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