“HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO HELLO LOVE AND KISSES CHALES” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I am not constructed for continued absences; I have never claimed to be constructed for them.” — J.D. Salinger Absences Copy Share Image
“No me atrevo acercarme a la forma del cuento corto. A los pequeños escritores gordos y subjetivos como yo, se los come… — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“When they argue, there can be no danger of a permanent rift, because they're Mother and Daughter. A terrible and beautiful phenomenon… — J.D. Salinger Daughter Copy Share Image
“But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody - you can be a good guy and do it.” — J.D. Salinger Bad guy Copy Share Image
“No odio a todos. Los odio unas cuantas horas o unos cuantos días, pero después se me pasa” — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all-I'm not saying that-but they're also touchy as hell.” — J.D. Salinger Parenting Copy Share Image
“It's hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.” — J.D. Salinger Roommates Copy Share Image
“People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act… — J.D. Salinger Growing up Copy Share Image
“It's funny. You take adults, they look lousy when they're asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. Kids… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“But most of all, above everything else, who in the Bible besides Jesus knew - knew - that we're carrying the Kingdom… — J.D. Salinger Bible Copy Share Image
“An instant later, a silk hat materialised in the air beside me, considerably down and to the left, and my special, only… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“They're not. That's partly what's so awful. I mean they're not real poets. They're just people that write poems that get published… — J.D. Salinger Poetry Copy Share Image
“I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age . sometimes I act a lot older than I am-… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It ends up with everybody at this long dinner table laughing their asses off because the great Dane comes in with a… — J.D. Salinger Dinner table Copy Share Image
“The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most… — J.D. Salinger Atheist Copy Share Image
“But what I don’t like — and what I don’t think either Seymour or Buddy would like, either, as a matter of… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“Finally, though, I’d leave the room without even taking a sock at him. I’d probably go down to the can and sneak… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are! You're the most impossible person to… — J.D. Salinger Cold Copy Share Image
“When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't… — J.D. Salinger New testament 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 Altruism Copy Share Image
“Si el sentimiento, en última instancia, no vuelve mentirosa a alguna gente, los abominables recuerdos seguro que sí” — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Then I started reading this timetable I had in my pocket. Just to stop lying. Once I getstarted, I can go for… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no… — J.D. Salinger Comedy Copy Share Image
“You fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The swimming stinks here because there are no waves even little waves. What good is it without any ways and you never… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Thirty-seven of them will be about shy, reclusive pennsylvania dutch lesbian who wants to write, told first-person by a lecherous hired hand.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I… — J.D. Salinger Dark Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that this composition has never been in more imminent danger than right now of taking on precisely the… — J.D. Salinger Danger Copy Share Image
“Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one’s sanity.” — J.D. Salinger Day and night Copy Share Image
“You never knew if he was nodding a lot because he was thinking and all, or just because he was a nice… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You're a little girl but nobody stays a little girl or a little boy for long. It's a quick business being a… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“How do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I feel like someone in a terribly sophisticated play. The funny part is, I'm not sophisticated. I'm not anything. I'm just me.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you a terrible secret — Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.” — J.D. Salinger Secret Copy Share Image
