“When she was done whispering in the mike and being cute as hell, they'd sing a song half in English and half… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The Navy guy and I told each other we were glad to've met each other. Which always kils me. I'm always saing… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“How'd she happen to mention me? Does she do to B.M. now? She said she might go there. she said she might… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“[Ackley] took another look at my hat . . . “Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That's all. They were coming in… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… The only thing that would be different would… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big pimple on… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“For example, when Seymour told one of the twins or Zooey or Franny or even Mme. Boo Boo (who was only two years younger… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the ground. We’d… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another… — j.d. salinger Copy Share
“And I hate to tell you... but I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“Hi,' he said. He always said it like he was terrifically bored or terrifically tired. He didn't want you to think he was visiting… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
“[Y]ou’re someone who took up birds in the first place because they fired your imagination; they fascinated you because ‘they seemed of all created… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share
![“[Ackley] took another look at my hat . . . “Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake,” he said. “That’s a deer shooting hat.” “Like hell it is.” I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. “This is a people shooting hat,” I said. “I…” quote by J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4e5/j-d-salinger-560_holden-caulfield_ackley-took-another-look-at-my-hat-up-ho_406316.png)
