Thursday, January 28, 2010

Literature News: In Memory of J.D. Salinger -- Quotes from "The Catcher in the Rye"

In Memory of J.D. Salinger
(January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010)




"What I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most. I mean you can't help it sometimes. What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice."

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

"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."

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