Salinger Quotes - Page 2

• I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me.

  John Dufresne

  Reading, Understanding, Reader

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• (Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

  Stephen Colbert

  Rocks

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• I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches

  Patricia Highsmith

  Thinking, Interviews, Speech

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