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Said Quotes by J D Salinger
- If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
- But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that…
- Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to…
- This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.
- Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when…
- I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious…
- I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of…
- He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
- He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest…
- I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but…
- Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever…
- She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light…
- I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got…
- Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized…
- Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did…
- He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army…
- I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I…
- Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake,…
- How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.
- Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.
- I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it.…
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