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“Ce que je veux dire, c'est qu'elle était très jeune et tout, et la plupart des filles que vous voyez mettre leur main sur la nuque de quelqu'un elles ont dans les vingt-cinq - trente ans et elles font ça à leur mari ou à leur gosse. Par exemple je le fais de temps en temps à ma petite sœur Phœbé. Mais si une fille est très jeune et tout et qu'elle le fait, c'est un geste tellement chouette que ça vous tue.”

J. D. Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

L'Attrape-cœurs (The Catcher in the Rye), 1951

“Quand j'ai été prêt à partir, avec mes valoches et tout, je me suis arrêté un petit moment près de l'escalier et j'ai jeté un dernier regard sur le couloir. J'avais les larmes aux yeux, je sais pas pourquoi. J'ai mis ma casquette sur ma tête et tourné la visière vers l'arrière comme j'aime et alors j'ai gueulé aussi fort que j'ai pu Dormez bien, espèces de crétins.”

J. D. Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

L'Attrape-cœurs (The Catcher in the Rye), 1951

“Ce qui m'intéressait, c'était plutôt de bien me pénétrer de l'idée que je faisais des adieux. Y a eu d'autres collèges, d'autres endroits, quand je les ai quittés je l'ai pas vraiment senti. Je déteste ça. L'adieu, je veux bien qu'il soit triste ou pas réussi mais au moins je veux savoir que je m'en vais. Sinon c'est encore pire.”

J. D. Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

L'Attrape-cœurs (The Catcher in the Rye), 1951

“J'ai refermé la porte et j'étais dans la salle de séjour quand il m'a gueulé quelque chose, mais j'ai mal entendu. Je me demande si c'était pas « Bonne chance! » J'espère que non. Merde, j'espère bien que non. Je crierais jamais « Bonne chance » à quelqu'un. C'est horrible, quand on y pense.”

J. D. Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

L'Attrape-cœurs (The Catcher in the Rye), 1951

“Je m'en foutais. Subitement, je me sentais si formidablement heureux, à regarder la môme Phœbé qui arrêtait pas de tourner. J'ai cru que j'allais chialer tellement j'étais heureux, si vous voulez savoir. Pourquoi, moi je sais pas. C'était juste qu'elle était tellement mignonne et tout, à tourner sur le manège, dans son manteau bleu et tout. Bon dieu, j'aurais vraiment aimé que vous soyez là.”

J. D. Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

L'Attrape-cœurs (The Catcher in the Rye), 1951

“« Je croyais que c'était "Si un cœur attrape un cœur". Bon. Je me représente tous ces petits mômes qui jouent à je ne sais quoi dans le grand champ de seigle et tout. Des milliers de petits mômes et personne avec eux je veux dire pas de grandes personnes – rien que moi. Et moi je suis planté au bord d'une saleté de falaise. Ce que j'ai à faire c'est attraper les mômes s'ils s'approchent trop près du bord. Je veux dire s'ils courent sans regarder où ils vont, moi je rapplique et je les attrape. C'est ce que je ferais toute la journée. Je serais juste l'attrape-cœurs et tout. D'accord, c'est dingue, mais c'est vraiment ce que je voudrais être. Seulement ça. D'accord, c'est dingue. »”

J. D. Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

L'Attrape-cœurs (The Catcher in the Rye), 1951

J. D. Salinger: Citations en anglais

“"I see you are looking at my feet," he said to her when car was in motion.
"I beg your pardon?" said the woman.
"I said I see you're looking at my feet".
"I beg your pardon. I happened to be looking at the floor," said the woman, and faced the doors of the car.
"If you want to look at my feet, say so," said the young man. "But don't be a God-damned sneak about it."
"Let me out here, please," the woman said quickly to the girl operating the car.
The car doors opened and the woman got out without looking back.
"I have two normal feet and I can't see the slightest God-damned reason why anybody should stare at them," said the young man.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Nine Stories

Nine Stories (1953), A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1948)

“The hallmark, then, of the advanced religious, nonsectarian or any other (and I graciously include in the definition of an "advanced religious," odious though the phrase is, all Christians on the great Vivekananda's terms; i. e, "See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk") — the hallmark most commonly identifying this person is that he very frequently behaves like a fool, even an imbecile.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“If there is an amateur reader still left in the world — or anybody who just reads and runs — I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Dedication

“The rest were standing around in hatless, smoky little groups of twos and threes and fours inside the heated waiting room, talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man, in his strident, conversational turn, was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue, one that the outside, non-matriculating world had been bungling, provocatively or not, for centuries.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Franny and Zooey

Source: Franny and Zooey (1961), Franny (1955), p. 1

“The facts at hand presumably speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even usually do.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)

“Jesus knew — knew — that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look? You have to be a son of God to know that kind of stuff.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)

“Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Nine Stories

Nine Stories (1953), For Esmé — with Love and Squalor (1950)

“I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing — perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Nine Stories

Nine Stories (1953), For Esmé — with Love and Squalor (1950)

“"You can say the Jesus Prayer from now till doomsday, but if you don't realize that the only thing that counts in the religious life is detachment, I don't see how you'll ever even move an inch. Detachment, buddy, and only detachment. Desirelessness. 'Cessation from all hankerings.' It's this business of desiring, if you want to know the goddam truth, that makes an actor in the first place. Why're you making me tell you things you already know? Somewhere along the line — in one damn incarnation or another, if you like — you not only had a hankering to be an actor or an actress but to be a good one. You're stuck with it now. You can't just walk out on the results of your own hankerings. Cause and effect, buddy, cause and effect. The only thing you can do now, the only religious thing you can do, is act. Act for God, if you want to — be God's actress, if you want to. What could be prettier? You can at least try to, if you want to — there's nothing wrong in trying." There was a slight pause. "You'd better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what I'm talking about. You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world."”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)

“"Could you try not aiming so much?" he asked me, still standing there. "If you hit him when you aim, it'll just be luck." He was speaking, communicating, and yet not breaking the spell. I then broke it. Quite deliberately. "How can it be luck if I aim?" I said back to him, not loud (despite the italics) but with rather more irritation in my voice than I was actually feeling. He didn't say anything for a moment but simply stood balanced on the curb, looking at me, I knew imperfectly, with love. "Because it will be," he said. "You'll be glad if you hit his marble — Ira's marble — won't you? Won't you be glad? And if you're glad when you hit somebody's marble, then you sort of secretly didn't expect too much to do it. So there'd have to be some luck in it, there'd have to be slightly quite a lot of accident in it."”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in The Catcher in the Rye. Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.”

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Jerome David Salinger

As quoted in The Twentieth Century (1972) by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429

“Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“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.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 9

“Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)

“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.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 1, opening sentence

“I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre A Girl I Knew

A Girl I Knew (1948)

“I never saw so many tigers.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Nine Stories

Nine Stories (1953), A Perfect Day for Bananafish (1948)

“It naturally follows that the creature you love next best is the person — the God-lover or God-hater (almost never, apparently, anything in between), the saint or profligate, moralist or complete immoralist — who can write a poem that is a poem.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)

“The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey (1961), Zooey (1957)

“I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things — work out rather beautifully.”

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Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

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Jerome David Salinger

Quoted by Salinger as a statement of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel in The Catcher in the Rye, this has often been attributed to Salinger, and it may actually be a paraphrase by him of a statement of the German writer Otto Ludwig (1813-1865) which Stekel himself quotes in his writings:
Das Höchste, wozu er sich erheben konnte, war, für etwas rühmlich zu sterben; jetzt erhebt er sich zu dem Größern, für etwas ruhmlos zu leben.
The highest he could raise himself to was to die gloriously for something; now he rises to something greater: to live humbly for something.
Gedanken Otto Ludwigs : Aus seinem Nachlaß ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Cordelia Ludwig (1903), p. 10 http://archive.org/stream/gedankenottolud00ludwgoog#page/n39/mode/2up; this is quoted by Stekel in "Die Ausgänge der psychoanalytischen Kuren" in Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse : Medizinische Monatsschrift für Seelenkunde (1913), p. 188 http://archive.org/stream/ZB_III_1913_4_5_k#page/n19/mode/2up, and in Das liebe Ich : Grundriss einer neuen Diätetik der Seele (1913), page 38 http://books.google.de/books?id=PgFAAAAAIAAJ&q=r%C3%BChmlich.
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