J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 2

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• Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a
  guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility
  for the first time in my life.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Responsibility, House

  "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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• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Life, Courage

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

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hands, People, 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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• We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.

  J. D. Salinger

  Converses

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

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• An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

  J. D. Salinger

  Art, Writing, Perfection

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

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• The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Crooks, Expensive

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

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• Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

  J. D. Salinger

  Weather, Emotion, Poet

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

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• I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

  J. D. Salinger

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Liking Someone, Sick

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• Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

  J. D. Salinger

  Success, Boys, Games

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

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• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Literature, Catchers

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

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• The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Choices, Poet, Materials

  "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 love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspiring, Love You, Pieces

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

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• What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Book, Reading, Memorable

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 3

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• Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

  J. D. Salinger

  Funny, Memorable, Missing

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

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• You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

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  Lucky, World, Phenomenal

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

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• Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.

  J. D. Salinger

  Strong, Stuff

  "Top 10 books about being alone" by Rebecca Dinerstein, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2015.

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• Mothers are all slightly insane.

  J. D. Salinger

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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

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• I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

  J. D. Salinger

  I Hate You, Mean, Puddles

  "Salinger by David Shields and Shane Salerno - review" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2013.

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• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

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

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• There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.

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  Nice, Mean, World

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

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• That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.

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  Coffee, Mean, Annoying

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

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• You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

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  Teacher, Want, Authority

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

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• God, I wish you could have been there.

  J. D. Salinger

  Wish, Wish You, Could Have Been

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

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