J.D. Salinger

“ Were most of your stars out? ”

— J.D. Salinger

“I like to chew candles.”

— J.D. Salinger

“We are required only to keep looking.”

— J.D. Salinger

“An Aesthetic Saint”

— J.D. Salinger

“[..] you dirty little bookworm.”

— J.D. Salinger

“You beautiful little moron.”

— J.D. Salinger

“One thing? One thing I like? Okay.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I never saw such a bunch of apple-eaters.”

— J.D. Salinger

“As you damned well know, we never change much in our hearts.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I don't like any shows very much, if you want to know the truth.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Imagine the story you would most want to read, and then shamelessly write it.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met.”

— J.D. Salinger

“oh, this happiness is strong stuff. It's marvelously liberating.”

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“This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experience.”

— J.D. Salinger

“He wasn't even listening. He hardly ever listened to you when you said anything.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Do you have any emotions?" "If I do, I don't remember when I ever used them. I don't see what they're good…

— J.D. Salinger

“I've missed you." The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.”

— J.D. Salinger

“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the…

— J.D. Salinger

“...her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership had been fully served.”

— J.D. Salinger

“No cuenten nunca nada a nadie. En el momento en que uno cuenta cualquier cosa, empieza a echar de menos a todo…

— J.D. Salinger

“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… The only thing that would be…

— J.D. Salinger

“¡Dios mío! ¡Cómo me fastidia que me digan «Buena suerte» cuando me voy de alguna parte! Es de lo más deprimente”

— J.D. Salinger

“What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they're…

— J.D. Salinger

“I make everybody feel that he doesn't really want to do any good work but that he just wants to get work…

— J.D. Salinger

“There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady ... don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? ... Ah,…

— J.D. Salinger

“What was left of his fortune, the Laughing Man converted into diamonds, which he lowered casually, in emerald vaults, into the Black…

— J.D. Salinger

“Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake," he said. "That's a deer shooting hat." "Like…

— J.D. Salinger

“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…

— J.D. Salinger

“He put his arms on the table and rested his head on them. He ached from head to foot, all zones of…

— J.D. Salinger

“On top of everything else," he said immediately, "we've got 'Wise Child' complexes. We've never really got off the goddam air. Not…

— J.D. Salinger

“I thought it was, "If a body catch a body," Anyway, i keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in…

— J.D. Salinger

“All I know is I'm losing my mind," Franny said. "I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's.…

— J.D. Salinger

“I went down by a different staircase, and i saw another "fuck you" on the wall. I tried to rub it off…

— J.D. Salinger

“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I…

— J.D. Salinger

“The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like…

— J.D. Salinger

“I'm profoundly attracted to classical Zen literature, I have the gall to lecture on it and the literature of Mahayana Buddhism one…

— J.D. Salinger

“TINA: Oh, Rick, Rick, I’m scared. What’s happened to us? I can’t seem to find us any more. I reach out and…

— J.D. Salinger

“It seems to me indisputably true that a good many people, the wide world over, of varying ages, cultures, natural endowments, respond…

— J.D. Salinger

“A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing.”

— J.D. Salinger