Salinger's famous sayings

1. "Remember what needs to be remembered and forget what needs to be forgotten. Change what can be changed and accept what cannot be changed. Remember what should be remembered , and forget what should be forgotten.Alter what is changeable, and accept what is mutable. ——Jerome David Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

2. We do live a difficult life. We have to endure all kinds of external pressures, and we also have to face our own inner confusions. When you are struggling, if someone looks at you with understanding, you will feel the warmth of life. Perhaps just a brief glance is enough to make me excited. —— Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

3. The sign of an immature man is that he is willing to die heroically for a certain cause; the sign of a mature man is that he is willing to die for a certain cause. Live a humble life. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

4. Growing up is a festering process that people must go through. ——Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

5. Some people think that love is sex, marriage, a kiss at six in the morning, and a bunch of children. Maybe it is, Miss Lester. But you know what I think, I think love wants to touch and then pulls back. ——Salinger, "The Heart of Broken Stories"

6. I will be a catcher in the rye in the future. There were a group of children playing in a large wheat field. Thousands of little kids and no adults around, I mean - except me. Me. Right on the edge of that goddam cliff. My job is to keep watch there. If any child comes to the edge of the cliff, I will catch him - I mean the children are running wildly and don't know where they are running. I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's what I do all day long. I just want to be a catcher in the rye. ——Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

7. You must never talk to anyone about anything. You miss everyone just by talking about them. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

8. I don’t care if it’s a sad farewell or an unhappy farewell. As long as I leave a place, I always hope to feel like myself when I leave. Know it well. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

9. This kind of thing always makes me laugh and hurt my belly. I always tell people, "I'm so glad to see you." In fact, I was not happy to see him at all. If you want to survive in this world, you have to say things like this. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

10. The sign of an immature person is that he is willing to die spectacularly for a certain reason, while the sign of a mature person is that he is willing to die spectacularly for a reason. The sign is that he is willing to live humbly for a reason. —— Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

11. I can't tell what I mean. Even if I say it clearly, I'm afraid I won't necessarily mean it. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

12. I'm not saying that he is a bad person - he is not a bad person. But you don't have to be a bad person to make people upset - you can be a good person and still make people upset at the same time. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

13. You must realize which direction you want to develop, and then you must set out in that direction, immediately. You can't afford to waste another second of time, you can't afford to waste it - Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

14. Due to my own stupidity, I always thought she was smart. ——Jerome David Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

15. There is a kind of very beautiful guy, or a kind of self-important person who always asks others to be great. Do him a favor. Because they love themselves crazily, they think that everyone loves them crazily and everyone is eager to work for them. It's actually kind of funny to say it. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

16. This is what makes girls funny. Whenever you meet someone like that who is absolutely despicable or arrogant, every time you mention it to the girls, they will say that he has an inferiority complex... The problem with girls is that if they like something No matter how dirty a person he is, they will always say he has an inferiority complex; if they don't like him, no matter how good a guy he is or how big an inferiority complex he has, they will always say he is arrogant. Even smart girls are not immune. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

17. When you are listless, people will always talk about it. ——Jerome David Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

18. A child refused to let others see his goldfish because he bought the fish with his own money.

——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

19. Although I live in this world, I do not belong to this world. ——J.D. Salinger

20. The thing is, every time you try to do something with a girl—I mean, not a girl who’s a whore or something—nine times out of ten she He keeps telling you to stop. My problem is, every time I stop. Most men don't. But I can't help myself. You're never sure if they really want you to stop, or if they're scared to death, or if they want you to stop on purpose. If you do do it, then the fault will be all on you and they can get away with it. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

21. I think suffering because you cannot love is hell. The fragments of life, they are light and small, but they leave people covered with bruises, and there is a situation that tells us that any ordinary life extends to fear. ——Salinger, "Nine Stories"

22. God, I wish you were here. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

23. Hey, as long as you die, they will really take care of you. If I really die, I really hope someone smart enough to just throw my body in the river or something. Whatever you do, just don't put me in a goddam cemetery where people come to see you on Sunday and put a bunch of flowers on your belly and all that goddam stuff. Who wants to spend money after death? No one wants it. ——Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

　24. Fucking money. It always makes you terribly sad in the end. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

25. I often have to say "Nice to see you" to others, even though I am not happy to see them at all. ——Jerome David Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

26. If you listen to me talk, the first thing you want to know is probably where I was born, my bad How childhood was, what my parents were doing before I was born, and some David Copperfield bullshit, but honestly, I don’t even want to fucking talk about that. ——Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

27. I like Jesus and stuff, but I'm mostly not interested in other things in the Bible. Take the Twelve Apostles, for example. They bore me to death, I tell you the truth. They were pretty good after Jesus died, but when Jesus was alive, their effect was like punching a hole in his head. They would only vent his anger. In my opinion, any character in the Bible is better than the Twelve Apostles. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

28. She is as soft-hearted as a fucking wolf. Those people who cry their goddam eyes out when they see something fake in a movie, nine out of ten of them are despicable bastards at heart. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

29. It's impossible to stop liking someone just because they died, for God's sake, especially if that person is someone you know better than you. Those living people are a thousand times better. ——Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

30. The real ugly girl is really pitiful to say the least. ——J.D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

31. I am just passing the test of being a young person now. Everyone has some hurdles to pass, right? ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

32. The only difference between happiness and happiness is that happiness is a real solid and happiness is a fluid - Se Ringer's "Nine Stories"

33. You don't like anything that's happening - J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"

34. "You Do you know Swain? He's the one who manages the gym?" he asked. He waited until he saw Nicholson nod. "Well, if Swain dreams about his dog dying tonight, he's going to have a hard night's sleep because he loves that dog so much. But when he wakes up in the morning, everything will be fine. He'll know It was just a dream." Nicholson nodded. "What does that mean?" "What it means is that if his dog really died, it would be exactly the same thing, but he didn't know it. I mean he didn't do it until he died. Will wake up." - J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories"

35. What kind of person is this whole arrangement made for? It is only for a certain class of people who, at one time or another in their lives, are looking for something that their own circumstances cannot provide. Or looking for something they just don’t think their environment can offer. So they stopped looking. They stop looking before they even really start looking. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

36. He is the kind of person who, if he doesn't break forty of your fingers when he shakes your hand, You will think that you are a sissy. God, I hate this sort of thing.

——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

37. For a person, they are destined to look for something that their surroundings cannot provide from time to time throughout their lives, or they think that There was nothing available around them, so they gave up looking. They gave up even before they really started looking. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

38. He said that I was not equipped to deal with the challenges of life because I lacked a sense of humor. ——J.D. Salinger, "Nine Stories"

39. I asked her if she would like to have a cup of hot chocolate with me, but she said no, thank you. She said she had to go find her friends. Children are always looking for their friends. It really makes my belly hurt from laughing. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

40. It was December, and the weather was as cold as a witch's teat, especially on the top of this goddam hill. ——J.D. Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

41. "Well, they swam into a hole, and there were a lot of bananas there. They looked very ordinary when they swam in. Fish. But once they entered the hole, they were as greedy as pigs. Hey, I know some banana fish. They swam into a banana hole and actually ate seventy or eighty bananas. "... "Of course, they are so fat that they can no longer come out of the hole. They can't even squeeze out of the hole." ——J.D. Salinger, "Nine Stories"

42. I didn’t care about the lightning flashing around me. If I was to be killed by lightning, I couldn’t hide even if I wanted to. ——Salinger's "Nine Stories"

43. I came back from somewhere where I spent the evening - I only remember that it was already dark - and at this time, I stood outside the school. On the sidewalk, looking toward the brightly lit window of the lucky shop. At this time, a frustrating thing happened. I could never shake the thought that no matter how calmly, rationally, or gracefully I might one day learn to live my life, I would always be at least a visitor to this garden of urinals and bedpans. , and standing next to it was a wooden model idol with no painted eyes. ——J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories"

44. An immature man sacrifices himself heroically for some noble cause, and a mature man sacrifices himself for some noble cause. Live a humble life. ——Salinger

45. If you do one thing very well, and then you start to show off without paying attention, it will be bad. ——Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"

46. I walked backwards away from the window and walked around the block twice until my knees were no longer weak. Then, not risking another look in the shop window, I went upstairs to my room and lay down on my bed. A few minutes later, maybe a few hours later, I wrote the following few lines in my diary in French: “I want to give Sister Irma the freedom to follow her own destiny. "Everyone in the world is a nun." - J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories"

47. I stared at the title page for several minutes, struggling to resist the huge attraction. Let yourself be moved by it. Then, with a passion that he had not done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote in English under the inscription: "Fathers and teachers, I am thinking about the question 'What is hell?' "I think suffering because you can't love is hell." He was about to add Dostoevsky's name after this sentence, but saw that the words he had just written were almost completely unclear. , so frightened that his whole body trembled. ——J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories"

48. "Things can often only be seen clearly after a long time. However, the only difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a real solid And joy is a fluid." "The thing is," Teddy said, "most people don't even want to stop being born and dying. A new body, without wanting to stop and get together with the soul, that kind of state is truly wonderful." - J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories"

49. "I am right. There's a very strong sense of intimacy with them. They're my parents, I mean, and we're all part of that harmony and stuff," Teddy said. "I want them to be happy while they're alive, because they like to live a happy life... But they don't love me and Bubo that way - that's my sister, I mean they can't seem to get over our They love us for who we are. They seem unable to love us unless they can constantly make us change slightly, but they love us almost equally for the reason they love us, and more often than not for the latter. . That’s not a good way to love.

——J.D. Salinger, "Nine Stories"

50. See the world of children as the real world, while the world of adults is just a world that is being destroyed from within and destroying humanity. Love is always sacrificed in despicable and dirty places - Salinger's "Nine Stories"

51. As long as a person is truly sleepy, Esme, then there is always hope that he can become a person again - - A person who is as healthy as ever. - J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories"

52. I always imagine a group of children playing games in a large wheat field. Thousands of kids, no one around - no adults, I mean - except me. It's my job to stand on the edge of that goddam cliff, if there's anyone. When a kid runs toward the edge of the cliff, I catch him—I mean, the kids are running wild and they don’t know where they are running. I have to come out from somewhere and catch them all day long. Doing something like this. I just want to be a catcher in the rye. I know it's a bit fanciful, but that's what I really like to do. I know it's ridiculous.

—— Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye" ;