J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."
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Catchers
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J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Money always ends up making you blue."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"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."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"If a body catch a body coming through the rye."
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"Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield."
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"When the catcher throws down a curveball, I'm like, 'Okay, I can definitely do that.' If I miss with it, I'm still ready to throw it again."
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"The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be."
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