Contempt Quotes by J. D. Salinger

... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

— J. D. Salinger

But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true…

— J. D. Salinger

“Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't…

— J. D. Salinger

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.

— J. D. Salinger

“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.”

— J. D. Salinger

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men,…

— J. D. Salinger

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

— J. D. Salinger

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

— J. D. Salinger

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some…

— J. D. Salinger

“You keep records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them. If you want to Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone…

— J. D. Salinger

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the…

— J. D. Salinger

Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.

— J. D. Salinger