J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 12

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• I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at Pencey, and this other boy, Robert Ackley. I hate them once in a while—I admit it—but it doesn't last too long, is what I mean. After a while, if I didn't see them, if they didn't come in the room, or if I didn't see them in the dining room for a couple of meals, I sort of missed them. I mean I sort of missed them.

  J. D. Salinger

  Couple, Hate, Mean

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

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• The sentence im reading is terrific.

  J. D. Salinger

  Reading, Sentences, Terrific

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• I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

  J. D. Salinger

  Two, Looks, Ugly

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

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• There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Long, Drunk

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

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• Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

  J. D. Salinger

  Giving, Ends, Give Me

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

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• In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sex, Mind, Saws

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

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• If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, One Thing, Ifs

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

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• I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

  J. D. Salinger

  Goodbye, Hate, School

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• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Girl, Confused

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

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• I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, People, Alive

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• I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Catchers, Holden

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win.

  J. D. Salinger

  Education, Suicide, Winning

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

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• Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Horse, Opinion

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

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• It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Fun, Crazy

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

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• I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Opposites, Scare, Not Afraid

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

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• But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have
  on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.

  J. D. Salinger

  Pain, Doe, Earth

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

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• It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stupid, Things To Do, Knows

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

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• You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

  J. D. Salinger

  Heart, Mean, Eye

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

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• Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It’s more interesting and all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Interesting, Nerves, Trouble

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

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• She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Eye, Kissing, Noses

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

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• If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and God knows what else that's gloriously normal.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, People, Presidential

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• People never believe you.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, People, Literature

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

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• I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

  J. D. Salinger

  Degrees, Want, Radio

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

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• 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

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• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Liars, Lying, Literature

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

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