Best Catcher In The Rye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.”

Lost Caring Days Catcher In The Rye

Author:J. D. Salinger

“People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.”

Lies Red Hair Catcher In The Rye

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It mad me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky for lunch or anything. I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.”

Holden The Catcher In The Rye Salinger J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and some times I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair.”

Salinger J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye

Author:J. D. Salinger

“I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.”

Humour J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they wouldn't get soaked to the skin or anything, but I stuck around on the bench for quite a while. I got pretty soaking wet, especially my neck and my pants. My hunting hat really gave me quite a lot of protection, in a way; but I got soaked anyway. I didn't care, though. I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there.”

Rain J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye Rye

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.”

Christmas Autobiography Censored Take It Easy Holden Caulfield Madman Catcher In The Rye Run Down

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.”

Selflessness Immaturity Salinger Catcher In The Rye Quoted

Author:Wilhelm Stekel

“DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.”

Inspirational Meaningful World War Ii Salinger Catcher In The Rye

Book:Salinger

Source: Salinger

“Then I thought of something, all of a sudden. “Hey, listen,” I said. “You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?” I realized it was only one chance in a million.”

Wonder New York Holden Salinger Catcher In The Rye

Author:Salinger J.D.

“We always had the same meal on Saturday nights at Pencey. It was supposed to be a big deal, because they gave you steak. I’ll bet a thousand bucks the reason they did that was because a lot of guys’ parents came up to school on Sunday, and old Thurmer probably figured everybody’s mother would ask their darling boy what he had for dinner last night, and he’d say, “Steak.”

Humor Holden Salinger Catcher In The Rye

Author:Salinger J.D.

“One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies.”

Classic Literature The Catcher In The Rye Catcher In The Rye

Book:The Catcher of the Rye

Source: The Catcher of the Rye

“D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”

Holden Caulfield Catcher In The Rye Ending Lines

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Once I had no dreams, yet another there was, a Heavenly wife, that to make mine, I’d pause, yet after she left, without saying goodbye, I can’t be her catcher, of dreams, or in rye…”

Love Wife Dreams Leaving Heavenly Cheating Inability Catcher In The Rye No Goodbye To Make Mine

Book:На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...