“Last month, Dean Sheeter (whose name usually transports Franny when I mention it) approached me with his gracious smile and bull whip,… — J.D. Salinger Buddhism Copy Share Image
“What happened was, I got the idea in my head-and I could not get it out ㅡ that college was just one… — J.D. Salinger Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“It started embarrassing me. I began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac." She reflected. "I don't know. It seemed like… — J.D. Salinger Egomaniac Copy Share Image
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — J.D. Salinger Art Copy Share Image
“It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." "I know… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“But you're wrong about that hating business. I mean about hating football players and all. You really are. I don't hate too… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“My father wrote beautifully,” Esmé interrupted. “I’m saving a number of his letters for posterity.” I said that sounded like a very… — J.D. Salinger Parenting Copy Share Image
“One of the thousand reasons I quit going to the theater when I was about twenty was that I resented like hell… — J.D. Salinger Holy ground Copy Share Image
“Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer--that is, if you want to, and… — J.D. Salinger First person Copy Share Image
“Тя се извини искрено, но без всякакво смущение, нещо повече — без всякаква сервилност, и на мен ми мина през ум, че… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender… — J.D. Salinger Health Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's… — J.D. Salinger Creativity Copy Share Image
“When Seymour and I were five and three, Les and Bessie played on the same bill for a couple of weeks with… — J.D. Salinger Good man Copy Share Image
“A legjobb abban a múzeumban mégis az, hogy minden mindig ott marad a helyén, ahol van. Semmi nem mozdul. Százezerszer is odamehetsz,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image