J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 9

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• He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sense Of Humor, Said

  "Nine Stories". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1953.

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• I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

  J. D. Salinger

  New York, Prayer, Loneliness

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• She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.

  J. D. Salinger

  Intelligent, Stupidity

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• He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

  J. D. Salinger

  Messiness, Arrangements

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• Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Lovely, Missed You

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

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• And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

  J. D. Salinger

  Happiness, Running, Grief

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Hair, Hands

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• If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Want, Ifs

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

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• Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.

  J. D. Salinger

  Horse, Fall, Kids

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• It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.

  J. D. Salinger

  Nice, Rain, World

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

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• Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

  J. D. Salinger

  Boys, College, Men

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

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• Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love You, Mean, Weekend

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• What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

  J. D. Salinger

  Nice, Memorable, Thinking

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

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• I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. I think it just remains to be said that any one of a hundred everyday menaces — a car accident, a head cold, a lie before breakfast — could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second.

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  Beautiful, Art, Lying

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• Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Memorable, Names

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

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• I’m not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sleep, Bed

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• Did you see more glass?

  J. D. Salinger

  Glasses

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• Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Records, Trouble

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

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• I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

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  Hate, Player, Dope

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

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• I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.

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  Tired, Character, Together Again

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• You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Strong, Likes And Dislikes, World

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• Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

  J. D. Salinger

  Islands, Sea, Phrases

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• There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

  J. D. Salinger

  Writing, Pleasure, Publishing

  J. D. Salinger (2016). “J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.29, Melville House

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• I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

  J. D. Salinger

  Lonesome, Felt, Lonesomeness

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

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• My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Necks, Minutes

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