The Catcher in the Rye Quotes
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“People never give your message to anybody.”
“This is a people shooting hat ... I shoot people in this hat.”
“I don't understand boring guys. I really don't.”
“I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about.”
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““I’m not in the mood right now,” I said. I wasn't, either. You have to be in the mood for those things. (Page 42)”
“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
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“I'll be all right. I'm just going through a phase right now. Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?”
“Then what she did — it damn near killed me — she reached in my coat pocket and took out my red hunting hat and put it on my head.”
“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.”
“Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has.”
“I got the ax. They give guys the ax quite frequently at Pencey. It has a very good academic rating, Pencey. It really does.”
“They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all-I'm not saying that-but they're also touchy as hell.”
“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.”
“Everything I had was bourgeois as hell. Even my fountain pen was bourgeois. He borrowed it off me all the time, but it was bourgeois anyway.”
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
“Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.”
“(Have you related to any other stories of children or adolescents, of young people growing up?) There was The Catcher in the Rye, the Diary of Ann Frank... Yes, actually I have, definitely...”