final+exam+quotes

Directions: Hello all...here is a list of the possible quotes that will be on the final exam. I will pick 10 of these quotes and then you will pick 3 and write about them...therefore, I would know a little bit about each quote or be able to discuss and give details from the book, especially the last part. Basically you have to prove to me that you have read the book. The way you do this is from specific details from the book that look and analyse the quotes.

Here they are!

1. What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to //know// I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 1

2. I don't even know what I was running for - I guess I just felt like it. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 1

3. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 1

4. I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 3

5. When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 6

6. All morons hate it when you call them a moron. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 6

7. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 9

8. It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not //all// yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 13

9. I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really //watch// them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 13

10. Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 15

11. If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 17

12. Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I //do// die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 20

13. It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 21

14. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And 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 do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 22, spoken by the character Holden Caulfield

15. "This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started." ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini

16. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ~J.D. Salinger, //The Catcher in the Rye//, Chapter 26 17. "I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." 18. "I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect." 19. "That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "F*** you" right under your nose." 20. "You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."