J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 5

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• People never notice anything.

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  People

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

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• If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.

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  Player, Piano, Closets

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

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• She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

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  Exclamation Points, Paradise, Observation

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

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• Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

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  Stars, Giving, Stories

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• A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.

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  Pride, Littles, Given

  'Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction' (1963) p. 195 'Seymour' (1959)

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• And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

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  Laughter, Stupid, Mean

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

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• I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.

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  Mean, Littles, Able

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

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• I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

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  Foxes, Littles, Grapes

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

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• Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.

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  Riding, Too Much, Next

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• She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

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  Years, Two, Yellow

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

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• I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

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  Nice, Needs, Reason

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

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• You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

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  Hands, Worried, Holden

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

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• I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am--I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.

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  People, Sixteen, Sometimes

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

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• She was not one for emptying her face of expression.

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  Expression, Faces

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• Sleep tight, ya morons!

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  Goodbye, Sleep, Saying Goodbye

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

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• You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.

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  Believe, Writing, Responsibility

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• I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.

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  Crazy, Lying, Swear To God

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

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• The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person at the other end shouts back ‘What?

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  Love You, Connections, Ends

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• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

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  Liars, Memorable, Magazines

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

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• He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

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  Suicide, Bitter, Said

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

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• You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

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  Inspirational, Mother, Father

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

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• I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

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  Football, Hate, Fall

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• But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.

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  Memorable, Intelligent, Hair

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

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• Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.

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  Running, Grief, Taken

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• Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.

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  Bed

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