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.
Wilhelm StekelTags: catcher-in-the-rye immaturity quoted salinger selflessness
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J.D. SalingerThat’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.
J.D. SalingerTags: holden catcher-in-the-rye salinger j-d-salinger the-catcher-in-the-rye
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. You can really touch me! If you don't believe me, come to Aristod right now. Come hold and hump me!
Brian CelioTags: humor holden salinger wordplay humbert
He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.
J.D. SalingerTags: war holden salinger army caulfield catcher rye allie db
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances. I may be an orange peel.
J.D. SalingerTags: salinger teddy nine-stories
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 know it's crazy.
J.D. SalingerI 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.
J.D. SalingerTags: catcher-in-the-rye salinger j-d-salinger
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