“The thing is, it drives me crazy if somebody else gets killed—especially somebody very smart and entertaining and all—and it’s somebody else’s… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.” — J.D. Salinger Ambition Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I act a lot older than I am – I really do – but people never notice it. People never notice anything.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I mean you'd be different in some way- I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry, I’m awful, I’ve just felt so terribly destructive all week. It’s awful. I’m horrible.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“...my atoms, moreover, are arranged to make me constitutionally inclined to believe that where there's smoke there's usually strawberry Jello, seldom fire...” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And I like his conceit. He's so conceited he's actually humble, the crazy bastard.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“If you're going to go to war against the System, just do your shooting like a nice, intelligent girl ㅡ because the… — J.D. Salinger Enemy Copy Share Image
“Seymour once said to me — in a crosstown bus, of all places — that all legitimate religious study must lead to… — J.D. Salinger Day and night Copy Share Image
“Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment, or peace, instead of money or prestige or fame… — J.D. Salinger Buddhism Copy Share Image
“At least I'm still in love with Yorick's skull. At least I always have time enough to stay in love with Yorick's… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I go because I sit in judgment on every poor, ulcerous bastard I know. Which in itself doesn't bother me too much.… — J.D. Salinger Judgment Copy Share Image
“Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened… — J.D. Salinger Autobiography Copy Share Image
“I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing… — J.D. Salinger Mean girls Copy Share Image
“That's the whole trouble. You can't even find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there… — J.D. Salinger Peaceful Copy Share Image
“When I’d checked into the bathroom with Seymour’s diary under my arm, and had carefully secured the door behind me, I spotted… — J.D. Salinger Sappho Copy Share Image
“You talk about piling up treasure - money, property, culture, knowledge, and so on and so on. In going ahead with the… — J.D. Salinger Material things 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
“Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and… — J.D. Salinger Clever Copy Share Image
“What, I wonder, does the reader know of large families? More important, how much can he stand hearing on the subject, from… — J.D. Salinger Age difference Copy Share Image
“Somewhat overly legibly, I wrote on a sheet of paper, "We're held up indefinitely by the parade. We're going to find a… — J.D. Salinger Old man Copy Share Image
“That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“I do like him. I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect… …… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that talk about how many miles they get to a gallon… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“He said he ate his food out of our big refrigerators, drove our eight-cylinder American cars, un-hesitatingly used our medicines when he… — J.D. Salinger Hitler Copy Share Image
“Şi a plecat. Marinarul mi-a spus că-i pare bine de cunoştinţă, şi eu i-am spus acelaşi lucru. Politeţile astea mă ucid. Veşnic… — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. [...] They… — J.D. Salinger Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it… — J.D. Salinger Education Copy Share Image
“If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Old Luce. He was strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly had a good vocabulary. He had the largest vocabulary… — J.D. Salinger Language Copy Share Image
“You know what the trouble with me is? I can never get really sexy―I mean really sexy―with a girl I don't like… — J.D. Salinger Sexy Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou’re someone who took up birds in the first place because they fired your imagination; they fascinated you because ‘they seemed of… — J.D. Salinger Animals Copy Share Image
“I've met the girl. She's a zero in my opinion but terrific-looking. I don't actually know that she's a zero. I mean… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very… — J.D. Salinger Books 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 Copy Share Image
“God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful,… — J.D. Salinger Beauty Copy Share Image
![“Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. [...] They who work selfishly for results are miserable. — "Bhagavad Gita.” quote by J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/44b/j-d-salinger-560_anxiety_work-done-with-anxiety-about-results-is_117743.jpg)
![“If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” quote by J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3c7/j-d-salinger-560_told_if-you-want-to-know-the-truth-i-don-t-kn_1082424.jpg)
![“[Y]ou’re someone who took up birds in the first place because they fired your imagination; they fascinated you because ‘they seemed of all created beings the nearest to pure spirit- those little creatures with a normal temperature of 125°.” quote by J.D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c6/j-d-salinger-560_animals_y-ou-re-someone-who-took-up-birds-in-the_86030.png)
