J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 14

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• Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or peace, instead or money or prestige or game or any of those things, doesn't mean I'm not as egotistical and self-seeking as everybody else. If anything, I'm more so!

  J. D. Salinger

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Felt

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

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• You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

  J. D. Salinger

  Meditation, Use, Firsts

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

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• Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?" No, but--" You're goddam right they don't

  J. D. Salinger

  Mother, Winter, Thinking

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

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• There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, Doing You, World

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• That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

  J. D. Salinger

  Swear To God, Terrible, Madmen

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

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• It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Stupid, Mean

  "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger, (p. 19), 1961.

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• Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are... Sex is something I just don't understand. I swear to God.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sex, Swear To God, Hot

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

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