J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 11

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• That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Feelings, Trouble

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

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• You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Becoming, Chance

  "Salinger Was Playing Our Song" by John Romano, archive.nytimes.com. June 03, 1979.

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• Do it for the fat lady!

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  Fats

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• For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

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  Phones, Hands, Joy

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

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• John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

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  Scarves, Please

  "From Salinger, A New Dash Of Mystery" by Michiko Kakutani, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 1997.

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• I live alone (but catless, I'd like everybody to know).

  J. D. Salinger

  Knows

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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.

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  Writing, Pleasure, Publishing

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

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• The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.

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  Animal, Boys, Expression

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• While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree.

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  Two, Guy, Tree

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• I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute. Not you.

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  Thinking, Want, Minutes

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

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• You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.

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  Blue, Iron, People

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

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• But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

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  Crazy, Swear To God, Swear

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

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• The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

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  Wall, Book, Exaggeration Is

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• The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

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  Twelve, Sawyer, Toms

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• 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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  Light, Dust, 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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• Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.

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  Guy, Toilet Seat, Toilets

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

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• After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

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  Doors, Orange, Mind

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

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• We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.

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  Nice, Two, Freak

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

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• There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.

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  Fats

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

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• I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

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  Thinking, Goal, Words Of Wisdom

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• It’s history. It’s poetry.

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

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• I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.

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  Zoos, New York, Home

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

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• I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

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  Girl, Horse, Fun

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1951.

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• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

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  Book, Teaching, Reading

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

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• I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.

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  Jerk

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

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