J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 3

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• Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Distance, Ideas, Suits You

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• Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

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  Success, Boys, Games

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

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• That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.

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  Coffee, Mean, Annoying

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

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• I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Lying, Down And, Sometimes

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

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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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• A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

  J. D. Salinger

  Pride, Littles, Given

  'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction' (1963) p. 195 'Seymour' (1959)

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

  J. D. Salinger

  Nice, Excited, Holden Caulfield

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

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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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• Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

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  Laughing, Might, Wells

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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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• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

  J. D. Salinger

  Literature, Illiterate

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

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• Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

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  Hate, Dresses, Looks

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

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• Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sun, Sunny, Said

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

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• I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.

  J. D. Salinger

  Important, Made

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

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• I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do

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  Hate, Thinking, People

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

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• It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

  J. D. Salinger

  Years, Feelings, Obscurity

  "JD Salinger: from boy of war, to modern man of letters" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sick, Want, Kind

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

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• There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

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  Nice, Mean, World

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

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• How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

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  Men, Long, Legs

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• God, I wish you could have been there.

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  Wish, Wish You, Could Have Been

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

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• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

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  People, Literature, Suitcases

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

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• Give me an honest con man any day.

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  Men, Giving, Honest

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

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• The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?

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  Glands, Existence, Existence Of God

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• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

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  Girl, Giving, Looks

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

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• Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.

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  Kids, People, Ifs

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

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