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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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He had a theory, Walt did, that 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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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

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People never notice anything.

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People never believe you.

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

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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.

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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. 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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: January 1st, 1919

Died: January 27th, 2010

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