“This is too grand to be said (so I’m just the man to say it), but I can’t be my brother’s brother… — J.D. Salinger Brother Copy Share Image
“Teddy thought it over. "You know what the word 'affinity' means?" he asked turning to Nicholson. "I have a rough idea," Nicholson… — J.D. Salinger Love Copy Share Image
“The thing is, most of the time when you're coming pretty close to doing it with a girl – a girl that… — J.D. Salinger Feeling sorry Copy Share Image
“You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddamn sands run out on you every time you turn around. I know what I’m… — J.D. Salinger Love Copy Share Image
“And yet I still act sometimes like I was only about twelve. Everybody says that, especially my father. It's partly true, too,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“What happened was, I got the idea in my head — and I could not get it out that college was just… — J.D. Salinger Nature Copy Share Image
“Would you like to know how Charlotte got those nine stitches?" I asked suddenly, in a tone of voice that sounded perfectly… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever told them. I mean even… — J.D. Salinger Animal Copy Share Image
“She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap they have… — J.D. Salinger Girls Copy Share Image
“It was a very touch- and- go business, in 1955, to get a wholly plausible reading from Mrs. Glass’s face, and especially… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“I knew her like a book. I really did. I mean, besides checkers, she was quite fond of all athletic sports, and… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the… — J.D. Salinger Goodbye Copy Share Image
“When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went… — J.D. Salinger Death Copy Share Image
“Could you try not aiming so much?" he asked me, still standing there. "If you hit him when you aim, it'll just… — J.D. Salinger Luck Copy Share Image
“I'm in the unique position of being able to call my brother, straight out, a non-stop talker - which is a pretty… — J.D. Salinger Conversation Copy Share Image
“Then something terrible happened just as I got in the park. I dropped old Phoebe's record. It broke-into about fifty pieces. It… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You remember I said before that Ackley was a slob in his personal habits? Well, so was Stradlater, but in a different… — J.D. Salinger Habits Copy Share Image
“Did you ever get fed up?" I said. "I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy… — J.D. Salinger Basketball team Copy Share Image
“But the thing is, you raved and you bitched when you came home about the stupidity of audiences. The goddam unskilled laughter… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“Teddy looked at him directly for the first time. Are you a poet?' he asked. A poet?' Nicholson said. 'Lord, no. Alas,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Then all of a sudden, this tear plopped down on the checkerboard. On one of the red squares – boy, I can… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“A lot of schools were home for vacation already, and there were about a million girls sitting and standing around waiting for… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“He didn't disagree with me, but he seemed to feel that I have a perfection complex of some kind. Much talk from… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Lane was speaking now as someone does who has been monopolizing conversation for a good quarter of an hour or so and… — J.D. Salinger Communication Copy Share Image
“We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, two drugstore tuna-fish sandwiches,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You’re absolutely right. You’re absolutely right. It’s staggering how you jump straight the hell into the heart of a matter. I’m goosebumps… — J.D. Salinger New testament Copy Share Image
“Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words, “Dear God, life is hell.” Nothing led up… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And I hate to tell you... but I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your… — J.D. Salinger Education Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you what kind of red hair he had. I started playing golf when I was only ten years old. I… — J.D. Salinger Allie Copy Share Image
“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Holden... One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don't you think there's a time and place for everything? Don't you think if someone… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“In just a second, in just a second. You keep talking about ego. My God, it would take Christ himself to decide… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It's really hard to be roomates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are the really good ones… — J.D. Salinger Humor Copy Share Image
“The thing is, though, I don't like the idea. It stinks, if you analyze it. I think if you don't really like… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way all Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near… — J.D. Salinger Happiness Copy Share Image
“While he was doing it, I went over to my window and opened it and packed a snowball with my bare hands.… — J.D. Salinger Bus driver Copy Share Image
“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“I went over to my window and opened it and packed a snowball with my bare hands. The snow was very good… — J.D. Salinger Flower Copy Share Image
“No, there wouldn't be," Holden said. "It'd be entirely different." Sally looked at him; he had contradicted her so quietly. "It wouldn't… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
