J. D. Salinger Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

  J. D. Salinger

  Horse, Car, Literature

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 17

• 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

• Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person. Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Air, Expression

• 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.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Art, Lying

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