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J D Salinger Quotes

Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy? Picture Quote #1

I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy Picture Quote #1

I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question Picture Quote #1

Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else Picture Quote #1

It’s so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody’s done it thousands of times. Just because they don’t remember, it doesn’t mean they haven’t done it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 to them Picture Quote #1

I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them Picture Quote #1

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn’t Picture Quote #1

If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry Picture Quote #1

I’m known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I’m doing is trying to protect myself and my work Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect Picture Quote #1

I don’t even like old cars. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake Picture Quote #1

Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion Picture Quote #1

I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn’t think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library Picture Quote #1

Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong? Picture Quote #1

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I mean it’s very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you’re a freak if you try to Picture Quote #1

If you can’t, or won’t, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who’s experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and God knows what else that’s gloriously normal Picture Quote #1

I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn’t any brains. -Holden Caulfield Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

If you’re going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all wrapped up in one Picture Quote #1

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I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))) Picture Quote #1

Yet a real artist, I’ve noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) Picture Quote #1

Oh, it’s lovely to see you!’ Franny said as the cab moved off. ‘I’ve missed you.’ The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn’t mean them at all Picture Quote #1

Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something? Picture Quote #1

He once told Allie and I that if he’d had to shoot anybody, he wouldn’t’ve known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were Picture Quote #1

Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family Picture Quote #1

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Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy? (J D Salinger Quotes) I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy (J D Salinger Quotes) I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question (J D Salinger Quotes) Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else (J D Salinger Quotes) It’s so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody’s done it thousands of times. Just because they don’t remember, it doesn’t mean they haven’t done it (J D Salinger Quotes) 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 (J D Salinger Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 to them (J D Salinger Quotes) I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them (J D Salinger Quotes) I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn’t (J D Salinger Quotes) If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry (J D Salinger Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (J D Salinger Quotes) I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect (J D Salinger Quotes) 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 Quotes) Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion (J D Salinger Quotes) I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn’t think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library (J D Salinger Quotes) Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong? (J D Salinger Quotes) I mean it’s very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you’re a freak if you try to (J D Salinger Quotes) If you can’t, or won’t, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who’s experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednesday, and European travel, and the H-bomb, and Presidential elections, and the front page of the Times, and God knows what else that’s gloriously normal (J D Salinger Quotes) I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn’t any brains. -Holden Caulfield (J D Salinger Quotes) 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 (J D Salinger Quotes) 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 Quotes) If you’re going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi’s grandfather all wrapped up in one (J D Salinger Quotes) I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))) (J D Salinger Quotes) Yet a real artist, I’ve noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) (J D Salinger Quotes) Oh, it’s lovely to see you!’ Franny said as the cab moved off. ‘I’ve missed you.’ The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn’t mean them at all (J D Salinger Quotes) Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something? (J D Salinger Quotes) He once told Allie and I that if he’d had to shoot anybody, he wouldn’t’ve known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were (J D Salinger Quotes) Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family (J D Salinger Quotes)

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