If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.


Chapter 1, opening sentence - The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

J. D. Salinger Quotes

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how...

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how...

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how...

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how...