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 terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

     That doesn't happen much though."
                                                                                                        -- Holden Caulfield ... JD Salinger
                                                                                                        -- The Catcher in the Rye

"If you really want to hear about it,

the first thing you'll probably want to know is

where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like,

and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me,

     and all that David Copperfield kind of crap,
     but I don't feel like going into it,
     if you want to know the truth..."

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"...But it isn't all true.

People always think

something's all true.
I don't give a damn except

that I get bored sometimes
when people tell me to act

my age..."

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"He was pretty nice about it. I mean he didn't hit the ceiling or anything." ( ) Page 8

"People never notice anything." ( ) Page 9

"I sort of wished he'd cover his bumpy chest. it wasn't such a beautiful view." ( ) Page 13

"If a body catch a body coming through the rye" ( ) Page 173

"Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."

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"You take a very handsome guy , or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot and they're always asking you

to do them a big favor, just because they are crazy about themselves, they think you're crazy about

them, too, that you're just dying to do them a favor.it's sort of funny in a way."

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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'd 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. I know it's crazy."

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"If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it....

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody!."

-- Last sentence of the book