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“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”

Nice Excited Holden Caulfield

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking about have many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that is even newer. I do not even like old cars. . . . I'd rather have a horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Littles Talking Worry Crazy Car Horse Sake Miles Brands Trading Scratches Brand New Gallons New Car Holden Holden Caulfield Old Car

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Hannah Storm in a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She's got on red go-go boots and a catholic school plaid skirt ... way too short for somebody in her 40s or maybe early 50s by now...She's got on her typically very, very tight shirt. She looks like she has sausage casing wrapping around her upper body ... I know she's very good, and I'm not supposed to be critical of ESPN people, so I won't ... but Hannah Storm ... come on now! Stop! What are you doing? ... She's what I would call a Holden Caulfield fantasy at this point.”

“I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.”

Men Facts Pain Names Given Written Mass Confusion Adolescence Autobiography Unlikely Holden Holden Caulfield Salinger

Author:Stephen Metcalf

“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 childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Firsts Kind Truth Parent Born Childhood Parenthood Crap Holden Holden Caulfield

Author:J. D. Salinger

“I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.”

Ifs Looks Littles Bigs Inspiration Running Kids Fields Little Kid Catching Catchers Holden Holden Caulfield Standing On The Edge

Author:J. D. Salinger

“If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.”

Ifs Hate One Thing I Hate Holden Caulfield Things I Hate

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Girls. You never know what they're going to think.”

Thinking Knows Night Girl Holden Caulfield

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.”

Ifs War Hell Glad Bombs Swear Volunteer Atomic Bomb Holden Holden Caulfield Swear To God Atomic War

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE