J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 10

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• I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield

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  Girl, Mean, Dumb

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

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• This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

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  Ego, Finals, Buddy

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

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• Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—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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  Mean, Rainbow, Different

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• Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

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  Beautiful, Baby, Home

  "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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• All mothers are slightly insane.

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  Mother, Insane

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• Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

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  Hate, People, Secret

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

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• I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

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  Writing, Men, Thinking

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

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• I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.

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  Running, Inspiration, Kids

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 22.

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• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

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  Mean, People, Actors

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

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact.

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  Girl, Sex, Pain

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 9

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• I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.

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  Artist, Hunger, Distraction

  "Whose Words Are They, Anyway?" by David Margolic, www.nytimes.com. November 01, 1987.

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• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

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  Religious, Agony, People

  "Zooey (1957)". "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1961.

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• It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

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  Depressing, Hurt, People

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• This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.

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  Fall, Men, Thinking

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• His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them

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  Thinking, Ice, Imagination

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

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  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.

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  Memorable, Games, Hot

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

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• What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.

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  Suicide, Stupid, Jumping

  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.

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  Girl, Sorry, Real

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

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• And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)

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  Usual, Horror, Seats

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• The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

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  Dark, Doubt, Cards

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

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• They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

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  Way, Reason

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

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• She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.

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  Cities, Whole

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• There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

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  Secret, Christ, Fats

  Franny and Zooey (1961). Ellipsis in the original.

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• His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo.

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  Blue, Roulette, Tables

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

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