J. D. Salinger Quotes

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:reading ignorance

“New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:loneliness

“if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:music woman body

“You take somebody old as hell, like old Spencer, and they can get a big bang out of buying a blanket.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:age

“You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:age

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:money hell

“I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:meaning

“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around—nobody big, I mean—except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to...”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:talking interest

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