J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 3

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• Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

  J. D. Salinger

  Laughing, Might, Wells

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• Give me an honest con man any day.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Giving, Honest

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

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• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

  J. D. Salinger

  Literature, Illiterate

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

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• The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?

  J. D. Salinger

  Glands, Existence, Existence Of God

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• I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.

  J. D. Salinger

  Important, Made

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

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• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Unhappy, Would Be

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

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• How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

  J. D. Salinger

  Men, Long, Legs

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• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Giving, Looks

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

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hair, Hands, People

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• Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

  J. D. Salinger

  Mean, Energy, Use

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• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Literature, Suitcases

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

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• She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.

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  Nice, Peaceful, Trouble

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

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• I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Thinking, People

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

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• I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

  J. D. Salinger

  Old Friends, Blooming, Bouquets

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• I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Holden, Knows

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

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• Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Dresses, Looks

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

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• I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

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  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Mood

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

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• probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Men, Cities

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• Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out?

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  Stars, Writing, Heart

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• I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

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  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger (Chapter 26), July 16, 1951.

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• Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

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  Hate, Writing, Phony

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

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• I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

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  Nice, Excited, Holden Caulfield

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

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• Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

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  Life, Change, Glasses

  "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger, (Ch. 16), 1951.

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• If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

  J. D. Salinger

  Watches, Ifs, Showing Off

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

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