“Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything.… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in." Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not… — 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
