J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 12

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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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• 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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• 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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• Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

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  Islands, Sea, Phrases

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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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• 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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• Do it for the fat lady!

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  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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

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  Suicide, Stupid, Jumping

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

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• It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

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  Depressing, Hurt, People

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• I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

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  Lonesome, Felt, Lonesomeness

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

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• Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

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  Horse, Crazy, Thinking

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 17

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

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  Girl, Sex, Pain

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

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• Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

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  War, Swear To God, Volunteer

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

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• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

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  Love, Girl, Confused

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

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• If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and God knows what else that's gloriously normal.

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  Thinking, People, Presidential

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• I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

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  Goodbye, Hate, School

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• There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

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  Girl, Long, Drunk

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

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• But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.

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  Mean, Talking, Helping

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

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