J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 6

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• Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

  J. D. Salinger

  Clever, Weather, Poet

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

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• But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

  J. D. Salinger

  War, Book, Hero

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• If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.

  J. D. Salinger

  Woods, Way, Hell

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

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• Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

  J. D. Salinger

  Disappear, Chairs

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• There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  J. D. Salinger

  Attitude, Writing, Men

  "Salinger: A Biography". Book by Paul Alexander, 2000.

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• I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

  J. D. Salinger

  Apples, Bunch, Adam And Eve

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• You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog died, he'd have a very, very bad night's sleep, because he's very fond of that dog. But when he woke up in the morning, everything would be all right. He'd know it was only a dream.' Nicholson nodded. 'What's the point exactly?' The point is if his dog really died, it would be exactly the same thing. Only he wouldn't know it. I mean he wouldn't wake up till he died himself.

  J. D. Salinger

  Dream, Dog, Morning

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• If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

  J. D. Salinger

  Body, Catchers, Holden

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Long, World

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• How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire

  J. D. Salinger

  Memories, Names, Desire

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

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• Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

  J. D. Salinger

  Holy Ground, Pieces, Littles

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

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• Money always ends up making you blue.

  J. D. Salinger

  Money, Blue, Catchers

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

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• I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding gums, facial blemishes, unsightly hairs, and faulty or inadequate life insurance. I drew housewives who, until they reached for the right soap flakes, laid themselves wide open to straggly hair, poor posture, unruly children, disaffected husbands, rough (but slender) hands, untidy (but enormous) kitchens.

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  Girl, Children, Husband

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• It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

  J. D. Salinger

  Telescopes, One Of Those Days, Ends

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

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• I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Friendship, Alive, Want

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• When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.

  J. D. Salinger

  Worry, Want, Fool

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

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• It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

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  Thinking, People, Holden

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

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• It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques.

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  Girl, Football, Sex

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

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• However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

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  Suicide, Loneliness, Artist

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• I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but 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.

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  Girl, Moving, Thinking

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• Liberate yourself from my vice-like grip!

  J. D. Salinger

  Vices

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• Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Guy, Crooks

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

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• I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Noses, Arms

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

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• If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Truth, Childhood, Parent

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 1

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• Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.

  J. D. Salinger

  Rain, Sometimes

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

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