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The Catcher in the Rye quotes
J. D. Salinger
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“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
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“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
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“People are always ruining things for you.”
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“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.”
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“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”
J. D. Salinger
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“People always think something's all true.”
J. D. Salinger
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“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
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“He hated it when you called a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
J. D. Salinger
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“I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.”
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“Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.”
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“When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.”
J. D. Salinger
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“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
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The Catcher in the Rye
“Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard—very mean, or very conceited and all—and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a...”
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“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
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The Catcher in the Rye
“Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.”
J. D. Salinger
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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The Catcher in the Rye
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.”
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“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
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“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
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“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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“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
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“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
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“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.”
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“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
J. D. Salinger
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“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
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“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to...”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the 'Fuck you' signs in the world. It's impossible.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“I used to think she was quite intelligent, in my stupidity.”
J. D. Salinger
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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
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“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
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“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
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The Catcher in the Rye
“But I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.”
J. D. Salinger
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“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.”
J. D. Salinger
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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
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The Catcher in the Rye
“It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are.”
J. D. Salinger
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“The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”
J. D. Salinger
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The Catcher in the Rye
“That's something that annoys hell out of me—I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.”
J. D. Salinger
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“Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
J. D. Salinger
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