J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 13

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Inspiration, Kids

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

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• He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.

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  Eye, Boys, Two

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• I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

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  Girl, Horse, Fun

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1951.

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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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• 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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Wall, Book, Exaggeration Is

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• The sentence im reading is terrific.

  J. D. Salinger

  Reading, Sentences, Terrific

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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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• 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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• 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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• Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. 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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Baby, Home

  "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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• 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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• I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Mean, Dumb

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

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• I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while—I admit it—but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them.

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  Couple, Hate, Mean

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Death, Glasses, Probability

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.

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  Dirty, Knees, Moron

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

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• All mothers are slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Insane

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