J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 14

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• But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Memorable, Mean

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

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• Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.

  J. D. Salinger

  Memorable, Games, Hot

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

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Stupid, Mean

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

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• If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

  J. D. Salinger

  Rose, Said, Fats

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

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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.

  J. D. Salinger

  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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Swear To God, Swear

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

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Kings, Stills, Asks

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

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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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