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“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.” (The Catcher in the Rye Quotes)
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
“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
“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
“Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“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
“Don’t tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.”
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
“I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, 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
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“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 anymore.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“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
The Catcher in the Rye
“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. 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
“I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
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
“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.”
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
“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
The Catcher in the Rye
“It’s one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“It’s really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“Just because somebody’s dead, you don’t just stop liking them-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
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rule.”
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
“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“Or you’d just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you’d be different in some way—I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“People are always ruining things for you.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“Sex is something I really don’t understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are… Sex is something I just don’t understand. I swear to God.”
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 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
“That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It mad me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky for lunch or anything. I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.”
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
“The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“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
“When you’re not looking, somebody’ll sneak up and write “Fuck you” right under your nose.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
“You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
