J.D. Salinger > Quotes
- “Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.” ...
- “If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. ...
- “An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
What is a quote from Catcher in the Rye?
“I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.”
Why does Holden say if you want to stay alive you have to say that stuff though?
If you want to stay alive, you have to stay that stuff, though." If you want to stay alive. Here, he implies that society forcers a person to be false as a means towards survival. ... It is not too far of a stretch for Maurice and Sunny to be viewed as symbols of that society which restricts the individual.
