J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 13

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Two, Looks, Ugly

  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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Way, Reason

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

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• This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Shooting, Hats

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

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• His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.

  J. D. Salinger

  Blue, Roulette, Tables

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

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• I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

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

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• The sentence im reading is terrific.

  J. D. Salinger

  Reading, Sentences, Terrific

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Jerk

  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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Fall, Men, Thinking

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

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Athletic, Together

  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!

  J. D. Salinger

  Depressing, Hurt, People

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Girl, Confused

  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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Horse, Crazy, Thinking

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 17

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Stuff, Mood, Ifs

  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.

  J. D. Salinger

  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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Scarves, Please

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

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• Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

  J. D. Salinger

  Giving, Ends, Give Me

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

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  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 [....]

  J. D. Salinger

  Twelve, Sawyer, Toms

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Army, Nazi, Said

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

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• If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, One Thing, Ifs

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

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• I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Trying, Strange

  J. D. Salinger (2016). “J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.32, Melville House

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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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• 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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, People, Presidential

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Long, Drunk

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

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