Catcher in the rye Quote by J.D. Salinger Download Open image ““I'd be the catcher in the rye and all.”” — J.D. Salinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catcher in the rye The-catcher-in-the-rye
“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 the only… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd… — Frank Portman Copy Share Image
“If she were running through the rye, if she were headed towards the abyss, I would grab hold with every ounce of my strength,… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
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And yes, Holden would keep those kids from falling off the cliff, but WHO WOULDN'T? Does she think I would just fold my arms… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I'm just like any other person you can meet and greet on the street and like or not like. I'm not Holden or Humbert.… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
“You will be personally responsible for the single deadliest screwup in the history of humankind, and I’m on a ship with Jim fucking Holden,… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest—HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.” — Lia Riley Copy Share Image
“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“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.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… The only thing that would be different would… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big pimple on… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“For example, when Seymour told one of the twins or Zooey or Franny or even Mme. Boo Boo (who was only two years younger… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“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… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“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… — j.d. salinger Copy Share Image
“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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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 this big… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
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