Quotes by J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossibl — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, an — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It' — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching th — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little k — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. — J.D. Salinger, 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 h — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went wi — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terri — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m aro — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye