The Catcher in the Rye Quotes

“Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”

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

topic:change

“You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.”

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

topic:education

“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have.”

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

topic:educationmind

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

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

topic:readingignorance

“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

topic:learning

“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:musicwomanbody

“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:moneyhell