Teddy Nine Stories Quotes & Sayings

Teddy looked at him directly for the first time.
Are you a poet?' he asked.
A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas, no. Why do you ask?'
I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.' "
- Teddy and Nicholson in "Teddy" (Nine Stories) — J.D. Salinger

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances ... I may be an orange peel. — J.D. Salinger

Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die. — J.D. Salinger