Catcher Rye Quotes by J.D. Salinger

8 Catcher Rye quotes by J.D. Salinger

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J.D. Salinger’s voice captures the restless spirit of adolescence. These eight short lines reflect that iconic tone, offering a concise taste of his timeless observations.

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“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the…

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“I thought it was, "If a body catch a body," Anyway, i keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in…

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“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start…

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“What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're…

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“It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." "I know…

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“That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's…

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“I'd be the catcher in the rye and all.”

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“I mean if thousands of little kids are running and they do not look where they are going, I have to come…

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“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you…

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“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.”

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“He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big pimple on…

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“For example, when Seymour told one of the twins or Zooey or Franny or even Mme. Boo Boo (who was only two years younger…

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“One thing? One thing I like? Okay.”

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“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We’d…

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“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

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“In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another…

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“And I hate to tell you... but I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move…

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“Hi,' he said. He always said it like he was terrifically bored or terrifically tired. He didn't want you to think he was visiting…

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“[Y]ou’re someone who took up birds in the first place because they fired your imagination; they fascinated you because ‘they seemed of all created…

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