But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much about. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
It was the last game of the year and you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pencey didn't win. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's… — 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 Copy Share Image
Take most people, they are crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, they are always talking… — J. D. Salinger 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
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.” — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
