J. D. Salinger Quotes - Page 8

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• She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Phones, Puberty

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

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• How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.

  J. D. Salinger

  Enough, Said, Knows

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

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• I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.

  J. D. Salinger

  Loss, Care, Too Much

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

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• I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

  J. D. Salinger

  Grateful, Invisible, Feels

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• You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Sexy, Knows

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

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• But don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Sunset, Forget

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

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• I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

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  Numbers, Lightning, Ignored

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

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• If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings--excuse the expression. Like Manlius and Esposito and all those poor men.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be.

  J. D. Salinger

  Want, Catchers

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• I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. 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.

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  Opposites, People, Sick

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• People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, People, Sick

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

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• If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

  J. D. Salinger

  Memories, Lying, People

  "Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

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  Good Luck, Thinking, Sound

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

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• Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

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  Confused, Firsts, Behavior

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

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• The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

  J. D. Salinger

  Ruins

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

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• who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.

  J. D. Salinger

  Flower, Religion, Want

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

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• How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

  J. D. Salinger

  Literature, Knows, Do You Know

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• But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.

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  Karma, Running, Mean

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• Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.

  J. D. Salinger

  Thinking, People, Missing

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• Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

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  Real, Artist, Praise

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• My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat

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  Brother, Pockets, Ink

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

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• He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

  J. D. Salinger

  Sense Of Humor, Said

  "Nine Stories". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1953.

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• She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.

  J. D. Salinger

  Intelligent, Stupidity

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• He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

  J. D. Salinger

  Messiness, Arrangements

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• I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

  J. D. Salinger

  New York, Prayer, Loneliness

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