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Thing Quotes by J D Salinger
- The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything.…
- If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy…
- If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.
- I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty...…
- The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
- It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
- 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…
- 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…
- Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old…
- Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
- But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too…
- 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…
- If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply…
- 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…
- You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven…
- She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her…
- She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
- You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it.…
- My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems…
- If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The…
- Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it will begin to give you an…
- 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…
- 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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