It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window.
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. One of my trouble...
It started embarrassing me. I began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac. She reflected. I don't know. It seemed like such poor taste, sort of, to want to act in the first place. I mean all the...
It ends up with everybody at this long dinner table laughing their asses off because the great Dane comes in with a bunch of puppies. Everybody thought it was a male , I suppose, or some goddam thing....
I'd never yell, Good luck! at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.
I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.
I thought it was, If a body catch a body, Anyway, i keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and no ones around - nobody big I...
I think that one of these days, he said, you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It's not going to go away, Buddy. To dump it on your own advice would be as bad and unnatural as dumping your adjectives and yo...
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate...
I go because I sit in judgment on every poor, ulcerous bastard I know. Which in itself doesn't bother me too much. At least, I judge straight from the colon when I judge, and I know that I'll pay like...
I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse him of having created an ugly world.
God, I wish you could have been there.
Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
For about a whole month, at least, whenever anybody said anything that sounded campusy or phony, or that smelled to high heaven of ego or something like that, I at least kept quiet about it. I went to...
Exactly what don't I think is beautiful? Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. To me, everything is beautiful. Show...
Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield
Don't tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. - Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's neve...