Quotes About Alienation In The Catcher In The Rye

#1. The snake has had its victories over me. And in its victories I am no longer sweet nor gentle.

Tiffany McDaniel

#2. You dare speak to me in such an insolent manner?'
'Stop talking like you're two hundred years old. You're sixteen, just like me.

Michelle Rowen

#3. I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

Charles Yu

#4. The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

Alfred Bertram Guthrie

#5. Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings, the nights.

Muhammad

#6. Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.

Iain Duncan Smith

#7. The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.

Emily Post

#8. Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings

Debbie Macomber

#9. Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs. -Jaina Solo

Michael A. Stackpole

#10. Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Antonio Porchia

#11. Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

George Will

#12. He flipped back the covers. "Come here, I want to show you something."
She raised a brow impishly, "You still have moves I haven't seen? Impressive.

Beth Mikell

#13. Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily ... life is only ours on loan.

Sue Grafton

#14. In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.

Roger Scruton