J. D. Salinger quotes - page 4

Seymour'd told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out the door with Waker. I was furious. The studio audience were all morons, the announcer was a moron, the sponsors were morons, and I just damn well wasn't going to shine my shoes for them, I told Seymour. (J. D. Salinger)
I'll tell you a terrible secret - Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. View quote
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You still can't love a Jesus as much as you'd like to who did and said a couple of things he was at least reported to have said or done - and you know it. View quote
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Could you try not aiming so much?" he asked me, still standing there. "If you hit him when you aim, it'll just be luck. View quote
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron. View quote
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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 do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. 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. View quote
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It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. View quote
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Mothers are all slightly insane. View quote
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. View quote
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. View quote
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. (J. D. Salinger)
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. View quote
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People never notice anything. View quote
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People never believe you. View quote
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. View quote
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. View quote
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He said to shine them anyway. He said to shine them for the Fat Lady. View quote
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Jesus realized there is no separation from God. View quote
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Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favorite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls - but, my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up? View quote
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I swear to you, you're missing the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim only. To endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness. View quote
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How in hell are you going to recognize a legitimate holy man when you see one if you don't even know a cup of consecrated chicken soup when it's right in front of your nose? (J. D. Salinger)
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. View quote
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Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. View quote
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. ... I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. ... I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work. View quote
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground. View quote
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