The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. — Boris Pasternak
I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark. — Neil Peart
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. — Charles Dickens
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. — Oscar Wilde
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid — Raymond Chandler
And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him. — Vladimir Nabokov
He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them. — Charles Finch
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. — Rudyard Kipling
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass. — Shang Yang
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. — Alexander Smith
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publilius Syrus
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of. — Dashiell Hammett
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. — J. D. Salinger
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. — J. D. Salinger
What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory. — J. D. Salinger
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. — J. D. Salinger
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though. — J. D. Salinger
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still. — Glenn Ford
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up. — J. D. Salinger
All morons hate it when you call them a moron. — J. D. Salinger
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. — J. D. Salinger
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. — J. D. Salinger
I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. — J. D. Salinger
Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal. — Harper Lee
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. — J. D. Salinger
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. — J. D. Salinger
I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls. — Winona Ryder
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were. — J. D. Salinger
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. — Harper Lee
Money always ends up making you blue. — J. D. Salinger
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
When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go. — J. D. Salinger
I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it. — J. D. Salinger
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. — J. D. Salinger
It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. — J. D. Salinger
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice. — J. D. Salinger
I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead. — J. D. Salinger
I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. — J. D. Salinger
If a body catch a body coming through the rye. — J. D. Salinger
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. — J. D. Salinger
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will. — J. D. Salinger
Girls. You never know what they're going to think. — J. D. Salinger
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. — J. D. Salinger
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. — J. D. Salinger
I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield — J. D. Salinger
There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out. — J. D. Salinger
Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad. — J. D. Salinger
If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me. — J. D. Salinger
I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window. — J. D. Salinger
A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common. — Beth Bailey
I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield. — Stephen Metcalf
I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone. — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Holden Caulfield is the embodiment of what we mean by the phrase “young adult” – too young to be a grown-up, but too wise to the world to be completely innocent. He’s caught in the in-between, and that in-between is what all young adult authors write about. — David Levithan
Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused to tell Holden Caulfield whether or not he had told Jane Gallagher what time it was, Holden Caulfield became enraged and attacked him in a fit or horological savagery, possibly because he was mentally ill and hated anyone byt him knowing what time it was. — Frank Portman
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