Books I Like: The Catcher in the Rye

My favorite quotes:


Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

The reason he fixed himself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself.

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.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Certain things, they should stay the way they are.

I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.

You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

Lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.

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