“Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are!” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be… — J.D. Salinger Androgynous Copy Share Image
“I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that.… — J.D. Salinger Animals Copy Share Image
“All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I said no, there would't be marvelous places to go to after I went to college and all. Open your ears. It'd… — J.D. Salinger College Copy Share Image
“That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed… — J.D. Salinger Cats Copy Share Image
“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded,… — J.D. Salinger Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it… — J.D. Salinger Book Copy Share Image
“Oh how nice!" the lady said. But not corny. She was just nice & all. "I must tell Ernest we met," she… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“ However I have thought of you frequently and of the extremely pleasant afternoon we spent in each other's company on April… — J.D. Salinger April Copy Share Image
“There were half circles under her eyes and other, subtler signs that mark an acutely troubled young girl, but nonetheless no one… — J.D. Salinger Beauty Copy Share Image
“I privately say to you old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parenthesis:… — J.D. Salinger Friendship Copy Share Image
“They make everything they touch turn absolutely academic and useless. To my mind, They're mostly to blame for the mob of ignorant… — J.D. Salinger Graduation Copy Share Image
“You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?’ he asked. ‘You know what was… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Кордон от високи половин човешки бой библиотеки опасваше три от стените и техните затрупани полици буквално се огъваха от книги - детски… — J.D. Salinger Book club 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“He said he was - this is exactly what he said - he said he was sitting at the table in the… — J.D. Salinger Jesus 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
“Take most people, they're crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they're always talking about… — J.D. Salinger New car Copy Share Image
“The connection was so bad, and I couldn't talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I started bitching one night before the broadcast. Seymour'd told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to… — J.D. Salinger Beauty Copy Share Image
“Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“[...] please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ).” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It's full of phonies and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be… — J.D. Salinger Education Copy Share Image
“I love you I love you I love you. Do you actually know I've only danced with you twice in eleven months?” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“He could hear me alright...but he didn't answer me right away. He was the kind of guy that hates to answer you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed me.” — J.D. Salinger Committing suicide Copy Share Image
“...publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write.” — J.D. Salinger Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, I find that if a situation is funny or risible enough, I tend to bleed less profusely.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy” — J.D. Salinger Happiness 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
“Ah, Sharon Lipschutz," said the young man. "How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.” — J.D. Salinger Desire Copy Share Image
“On sul mõnikord kõigest villand? On sul mõnikord hirm, et kõik läheb kuradile, kui sa ise ei hakka vastu rabelema?” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image