- Review: 'The Catcher in the Rye'
- Quotes
- Terms / Vocabulary
- Questions for Study & Discussion
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- J.D. Salinger Biography
- J.D. Salinger Quotes
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- 'The Catcher in the Rye' Books
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Quotes
- "What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 1 - "I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 1 - "It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 1 - "People always think something's all true."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 2 - "People never notice anything."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 2 - "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, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 3 - "When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 6 - "All morons hate it when you call them a moron."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 6 - "In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 9 - "It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 9 - "Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 9 - "I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 10 - "There isn't any night club in the world you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you're with some girl that really knocks you out."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 13 - "It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 13 - "I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 13 - "Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 15
