Catcher In The Rye Quotes

"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. That doesn't happen much, though." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"Don't ever tell anybody anything "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. " — J. D "I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. " — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"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. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, 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 (The Catcher in the Rye)

"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 do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. 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." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I am 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 "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 in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"Mothers are all slightly insane. " — J. D "Mothers are all slightly insane." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"It's funny. 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)

"When you're dead, they really fix you up "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 your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"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)

"And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs "And I have one of those 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)

"Certain things, they should stay the way they are "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 (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it. " — J. D "I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"People are always ruining things for you. " — J. D "People are always ruining things for you." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write “ "when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write “**** you" right under your nose." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all "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 (The Catcher in the Rye)

"I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful "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)

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron. " — J. D "All morons hate it when you call them a moron." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

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