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J.D. Salinger Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“Nothing one man can say can help another. Each must make his own way.”
— J.D. Salinger, Salinger
Tagged: Life
“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 terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.”
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Tagged: Books, Reading, author, Friendship
“One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest brother, Seymour.”
— J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Tagged: first lines of books
“You have to stop trying to make other people 'measure up.' This is a standard only you can apply to yourself. It's the only one you have the right to enforce. ”
— J.D. Salinger, Salinger
Tagged: Life
“I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Tagged: degree, College
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Tagged: Creative, Artist, Perfection
“I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.”
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Tagged: Society, Formalities, Keeping Up Appearances
“Though brilliantly sunny, Saturday morning was overcoat weather again, not just topcoat weather, as it had been all week and as everyone had hoped it would stay for the big weekend—the weekend of the Yale game.”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Tagged: first lines of books, Weather
“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.’”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Tagged: Courage To Be Nobody, Famous Quotes, Identity, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“At the end of the day you're in your own stew.”
— J.D. Salinger, Salinger
Tagged: Life
“Detachment, buddy, only detachment.”
— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
Tagged: Life
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye
Tagged: Life, Excited
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