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“All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's. I'm sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“People are always ruining things for you.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“knowledge should lead to wisdom, and . . . if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time!”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect...”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“I'm 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
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They...”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“He hated it when you called a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake—especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Against my better judgment, I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young...”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“People always think something's all true.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“My God, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don't like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they'll say he's...”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say 'Holden Caulfield' on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say 'Fuck you.' I'm positive,...”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”
J. D. Salinger
,
Franny and Zooey
“I mean he was very intelligent and all, but you could tell he didn't have too much brains.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on...”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs—if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of...”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and...”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“But I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.”
J. D. Salinger
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Franny and Zooey
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an 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,...”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“And I have one of these very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“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
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
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