J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 4

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• I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Lying, Down And, Sometimes

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

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• Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

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  Tired, Riding, Matter

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

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• Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

  J. D. Salinger

  Death, Hope, Flower

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

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• It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

  J. D. Salinger

  Years, Feelings, Obscurity

  "JD Salinger: from boy of war, to modern man of letters" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sick, Want, Kind

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

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• There are still a few men who love desperately.

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  Men, Stills

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• Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an idea what size mind you have. What’ll fit and, maybe, what it won’t. After a while, you’ll have an idea what kind of thoughts your mind should be wearing. For one thing, it may save you an extraordinary amount of time trying on ideas that won’t suit you, aren’t becoming to you. You’ll begin to know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

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  Distance, Ideas, Suits You

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• I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

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  God, Children, Drinking

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• It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.

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  Crazy, Sun, Afternoon

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

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• Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

  J. D. Salinger

  Doe, Loving Something, Sentimentality

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• Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sun, Sunny, Said

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

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• You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.

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  Education, Teacher, Thinking

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

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• I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.

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  Drunk, One Day, Blind

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

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• People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

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  People, Hot, Discussion

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

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• I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Happiness, Smart, Make You Happy

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

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• Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.

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  Writing, Heard, Euphemism

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

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• Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

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  Ego, Littles, Referring

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

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• Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

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  Mean, Scared, Feds

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

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• Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

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  Good Night, Stars, Writing

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• Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

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  Real, Ego, Hobbies

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

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• It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.

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  Sun, Coming Out, Feels

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

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• We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

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  Distance, Blood, Circles

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

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• Where do the ducks go in the winter?

  J. D. Salinger

  Winter, Ducks

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• You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

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  Strong, Likes And Dislikes, People

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• God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

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  Used, Reader, Used To Be

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