J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 2

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• Are all your stars shining?

  J. D. Salinger

  Stars, Shining, Crafts

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• Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

  J. D. Salinger

  Jesus, Stupid, Heaven

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

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• Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a
  guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility
  for the first time in my life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Responsibility, House

  "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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

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  Hands, People, Touching

  "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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• That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.

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  Nice, Peaceful, Trouble

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

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• She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

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  Weather, Emotion, Poet

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

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• An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

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  Art, Writing, Perfection

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

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• You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

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  Lucky, World, Phenomenal

  "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1961.

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• We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

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  Converses

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

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• Mothers are all slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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

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• People are always ruining things for you.

  J. D. Salinger

  People

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

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• The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Choices, Poet, Materials

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.

  J. D. Salinger

  Strong, Stuff

  "Top 10 books about being alone" by Rebecca Dinerstein, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2015.

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• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Literature, Catchers

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

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• I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

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  Writing, Want, Pleasure

  J. D. Salinger (2016). “J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.77, Melville House

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• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

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

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• I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

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  I Hate You, Mean, Puddles

  "Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno - review" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2013.

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• If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

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  Watches, Ifs, Showing Off

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

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• I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

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  Nice, Excited, Holden Caulfield

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

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• I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspiring, Love You, Pieces

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

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• You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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  Teacher, Want, Authority

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

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• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

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  Artist, Unhappy, Would Be

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

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• You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Reading, Writing

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