J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 7

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• Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Kids, People, Ifs

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

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• Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Lying, Sunshine, Special

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

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• I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.

  J. D. Salinger

  Horse, Car, Literature

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 17

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• If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Gratitude, Children

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

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• if somebody at least listens it not too bad

  J. D. Salinger

  Ifs

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

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• Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person. Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Air, Expression

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• I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Book, My Best Friend

  "The Twentieth Century". Book by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429, 1972.

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• I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful

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

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• If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, Writing, Heart

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• I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

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

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• But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Might, Accusation

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

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• As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.

  J. D. Salinger

  Love, Book, Artist

  "The Mistakes in This Essay Are My Own" by John Maxwell Hamilton, www.nytimes.com. April 15, 1990.

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• She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to go to the park, and that's what she is, roller-skate skinny. You'd like her.

  J. D. Salinger

  Nice, Fifth Avenue, Parks

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

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• I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.

  J. D. Salinger

  Realizing, Knows, Hard

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

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• For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, Grace, Firsts

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

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• I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Deaf, Mute

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

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• In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.

  J. D. Salinger

  People, Way, Firsts

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

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• But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end.

  J. D. Salinger

  Passion, Men, Creative

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

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• I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

  J. D. Salinger

  Window, Phony, Holden Caulfield

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• It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

  J. D. Salinger

  Fun, Stuff, Sometimes

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

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• The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

  J. D. Salinger

  Fall, Kids, Say Anything

  "The Catcher in the Rye". Book by J. D. Salinger, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 1951.

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• The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

  J. D. Salinger

  House, Valhalla, Manhattan

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

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• The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Looks, Littles

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

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• He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Thinking, Hands

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

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• Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.

  J. D. Salinger

  Heart, Autumn, Garage

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

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