Catcher in the rye Quote by J.D. Salinger

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

— J.D. Salinger

“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

“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

“One thing? One thing I like? Okay.”

— J.D. Salinger

“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

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

— J.D. Salinger

“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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