“It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twentyone or thirty, at the very outside,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick him up… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I glanced past her and behind her, furtively, at the fifth passenger-the tiny elderly man-to see if his insularity was still in… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Where before we Comanches had simply stared at her femaleness, we now glared at it. She smiled back at us. It was… — J.D. Salinger Humor Copy Share Image
“Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...' Sensitive. That killed me. That… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Tell you what we'll do," she said. "We'll drive to town and get some pickles, and some bread, and we'll eat the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Think how practical, pleasant, and thrilling it would be if one could open one’s mouth, from time to time, and something other… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The Navy guy and I told each other we were glad to've met each other. Which always kils me. I'm always saing… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I have scars on my hand from touching certain people. Once, in the park, when Frannie was still in the carriage, I… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The's what nearly drove me crazy. All the visitors could get in their cars and turn on their radios and all and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Oh, Romeo and Juliet! Lovely! Didn’t you just love it?”She certainly didn’t sound like a nun. “Yes. I did. I liked it… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“I knew this one Catholic boy, Louis Shaney, when I was at the Whooton School. Then, after a while, right in the… — J.D. Salinger Communication Copy Share Image
“I went to my room and put some water on my hair, but you can't really comb a crew cut or anything.… — J.D. Salinger Feeling sorry Copy Share Image
“Виж какво, седнеш ли да пишеш, винаги гледай да се сещаш, че преди да станеш писател, дълго време си бил читател. Запечатал… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I could see my mother going in Spaulding's and asking the salesman a million dopy questions - and here I was getting… — J.D. Salinger Parenting Copy Share Image
“All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for… — J.D. Salinger Classics Copy Share Image
“Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do… — J.D. Salinger Life Copy Share Image
“No importa que la sensación sea triste o hasta desagradable, pero cuando me voy de un sitio me gusta darme cuenta de… — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“That’s a deer shooting hat.' 'Like hell it is.' I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“God damn it," he said, "there are nice things in the world- and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“God almighty, Franny," he said. "If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to… — J.D. Salinger Christianity Copy Share Image
“And, in my opinion, that's one of the reasons why you're having this little nervous breakdown. And es pec ially the reason… — J.D. Salinger Ghost Copy Share Image
“In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!'… — j.d. salinger Copy Share Image
“He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I said I thought she had a very fine voice. She nodded. 'I know. I'm going to be a professional singer.' 'Really?… — J.D. Salinger Money Copy Share Image
“I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Hi,' he said. He always said it like he was terrifically bored or terrifically tired. He didn't want you to think he… — J.D. Salinger Failure Copy Share Image
“They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny. I swear to God,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Did anybody say anything about being flawless? Perfection is an absolutely different word, magnificently left hanging for the human being’s kind benefit… — J.D. Salinger Excellence Copy Share Image
“Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all— and when you mention it… — J.D. Salinger Inferiority Copy Share Image
“This is the squalid, or moving, part of the story, and the scene changes. The people change, too. I'm still around, but… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“This is nobody’s fault, swiftly be assured; being human beings with personal opinions and brains, we are respondent to any shreds of… — J.D. Salinger Beauty Copy Share Image
“The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry… — J.D. Salinger Fear Copy Share Image
