Best J D Salinger Lines
- Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and… Able
- And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably… Behind
- Give me an honest con man any day. Any
- I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice,… Airtight
- But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too… Certain
- Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm… Any
- She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny. Roller-skate skinny. I watched her once from the window when she was crossing over Fifth Avenue to… Avenue
- I said old Jesus probably would've puked if He could see it - all those fancy costumes and all. Sally said I was a sacrilegious… All
- It's nice when somebody tells you about their uncle. Especially when they start out telling you about their father's farm and then all of a… All
- It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window. All
- If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all… All
- It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. All
- I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it… All
- I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're… All
- If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear… All
- People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it. Anything Really
- I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy Stradlater I knew at… Admit
- Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it. Deserve
- You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s… All
- His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed… Arms
- They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that… Good
- However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how… Actually Dies
- The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all… Academic
- And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out… Begining
- I love you to pieces, distraction, etc. Distraction
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