J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 13

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• Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Sorry, Real

  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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• It’s history. It’s poetry.

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

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• The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

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  Wall, Book, Exaggeration Is

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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.

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  Men, Trying, Strange

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

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

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  Hate, One Thing, Ifs

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

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• If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

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  Death, Glasses, Probability

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• ... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

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  Accomplished, Talkers, Please

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• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

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  Liars, Lying, Literature

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

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

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  Giving, Ends, Give Me

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

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• But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

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  Doctors, Hair, Cells

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• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

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  Crazy, Stupid, Mean

  "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger, (p. 19), 1961.

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

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  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.

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  Blue, Roulette, Tables

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

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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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• Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.

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  Kings, Stills, Asks

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

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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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• 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 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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• But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

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  Crazy, Swear To God, Swear

  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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