"The Catcher in the Rye" Quotes
A disillusioned teenager wanders through New York City, grappling with the phoniness of the adult world.
classics | 277 pages | Published in 1951
Quotes
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
People never notice anything.
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.
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off.
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.
People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.





