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
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. — 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
They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they… — 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
But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of… — 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
