“But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on the wall. It drove… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You keep talking about ego, my God, it would take Christ himself to decide what's ego and what isn't. This is God's… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“a stunning glimpse of Buddy, at a later date by innumerable years, quite bereft of my dubious, loving company, writing about this… — J.D. Salinger Entire life Copy Share Image
“Christ, it's embarrassing--I start thinking about this goddam poem I sent her when we first started goin' around together. 'Rose my color… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“...He talks and talks and talks. And if he isn't talking, he's smoking his smelly cigars all over the house. I'm so… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Zooey was in dreamy top form. The announcer had them off on the subject of housing developments, and the little Burke girl… — J.D. Salinger Wrong people Copy Share Image
“I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any… — J.D. Salinger Communication Copy Share Image
“I'm not too sure what the name of the song was that he was playing when I came in, but whatever it… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It was a very touch- and- go business, in 1955, to get a wholly plausible reading from Mrs. Glass’s face, and especially… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“I knew her like a book. I really did. I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports, and… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the… — J.D. Salinger Goodbye Copy Share Image
“I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever told them. I mean even… — J.D. Salinger Animal Copy Share Image
“She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap they have… — J.D. Salinger Girls Copy Share Image
“I'm in the unique position of being able to call my brother, straight out, a non-stop talker - which is a pretty… — J.D. Salinger Conversation Copy Share Image
“Could you try not aiming so much?" he asked me, still standing there. "If you hit him when you aim, it'll just… — J.D. Salinger Luck Copy Share Image
“Then something terrible happened just as I got in the park. I dropped old Phoebe's record. It broke-into about fifty pieces. It… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You remember I said before that Ackley was a slob in his personal habits? Well, so was Stradlater, but in a different… — J.D. Salinger Habits Copy Share Image
“When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went… — J.D. Salinger Death Copy Share Image
“But the thing is, you raved and you bitched when you came home about the stupidity of audiences. The goddam unskilled laughter… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“Did you ever get fed up?" I said. "I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy… — J.D. Salinger Basketball team Copy Share Image
“A lot of schools were home for vacation already, and there were about a million girls sitting and standing around waiting for… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“Teddy looked at him directly for the first time. Are you a poet?' he asked. A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Then all of a sudden, this tear plopped down on the checkerboard. On one of the red squares – boy, I can… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“She's an irritating, opinionated woman- a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A… — J.D. Salinger Every night Copy Share Image
“Walt, at about eleven, had a routine of looking at Seymour's wrists and telling him to take off his sweater. "Take off… — J.D. Salinger Admiration Copy Share Image
“...What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Never wants to what?” Meet anybody for a drink . Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“This is too grand to be said (so I’m just the man to say it), but I can’t be my brother’s brother… — J.D. Salinger Brother Copy Share Image
“He probably likes you. That's no reason to put ink all--" "I don't want him to like me," she said. Then she… — J.D. Salinger Every Minute Copy Share Image
“The thing is, most of the time when you're coming pretty close to doing it with a girl – a girl that… — J.D. Salinger Feeling sorry Copy Share Image
“You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddamn sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what I’m… — J.D. Salinger Love Copy Share Image
“Teddy thought it over. "You know what the word 'affinity' means?" he asked turning to Nicholson. "I have a rough idea," Nicholson… — J.D. Salinger Love Copy Share Image
“What happened was, I got the idea in my head — and I could not get it out that college was just… — J.D. Salinger Nature Copy Share Image
“Would you like to know how Charlotte got those nine stitches?" I asked suddenly, in a tone of voice that sounded perfectly… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve. Everybody says that, especially my father. It's partly true, too,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that college was just one more… — J.D. Salinger Waste of time Copy Share Image
