J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 13

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• It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

  J. D. Salinger

  Brain, Littles, Tiny

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

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• If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Death, Glasses, Probability

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• ... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

  J. D. Salinger

  Accomplished, Talkers, Please

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• Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.

  J. D. Salinger

  Kings, Stills, Asks

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

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• It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a sudden get more interested in their uncle.

  J. D. Salinger

  Uncles, Father, Nice

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

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• It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.

  J. D. Salinger

  Window, Sophisticated, Phony

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

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• I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing Jesus really would've liked would be the guy who plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

  J. D. Salinger

  Jesus, Atheist, Play

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

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• If you're not in the mood, you can't do that stuff right.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stuff, Mood, Ifs

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

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• Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this "French-inhale" style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Enormous Quantities, Style

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

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• Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, My Best Friend, Facts

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sex, Hot, Horsing Around

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

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• If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

  J. D. Salinger

  Jesus, Prayer, Grandfather

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

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• I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Trying, Strange

  J. D. Salinger (2016). “J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.32, Melville House

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• But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Talking, Helping

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

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• Get your dirty stinking moron knees off my chest.

  J. D. Salinger

  Dirty, Knees, Moron

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

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• If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

  J. D. Salinger

  Rose, Said, Fats

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

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• But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Doctors, Hair, Cells

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• In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Athletic, Together

  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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• 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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• 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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• Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

  J. D. Salinger

  War, Swear To God, Volunteer

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

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• This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Shooting, Hats

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

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• I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

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

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• He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.

  J. D. Salinger

  Eye, Boys, Two

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