“I'm always saying 'Glad to've met you' to somebody I'm not at all glad I met.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Postponed pain is among the most abominable kind to experience.” — J.D. Salinger Abominable Copy Share Image
“A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I was feeling sort of lousy. Depressed and all. I almost wish I was dead.” — J.D. Salinger Depressed Copy Share Image
“As you damned well know, we never change much in our hearts.” — J.D. Salinger Change Copy Share Image
“I don't like any shows very much, if you want to know the truth.” — J.D. Salinger Television Copy Share Image
“I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Forgive the pessimism, if not the sonority. But I know how much you demand from a thing, you little bastard.” — J.D. Salinger Pessimism Copy Share Image
“You're a student - whether the idea appeals to you or not. You're in love with knowledge.” — J.D. Salinger Idea Copy Share Image
“[...] please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ).” — 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 Education Copy Share Image
“If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I love you I love you I love you. Do you actually know I've only danced with you twice in eleven months?” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I go because I sit in judgment on every poor, ulcerous bastard I know. Which in itself doesn't bother me too much.… — J.D. Salinger Judgment Copy Share Image
“Besides, I'm not going to tell you my whole autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened… — J.D. Salinger Autobiography Copy Share Image
“I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing… — J.D. Salinger Mean girls Copy Share Image
“That's the whole trouble. You can't even find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there… — J.D. Salinger Peaceful Copy Share Image
“That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“He said he ate his food out of our big refrigerators, drove our eight-cylinder American cars, un-hesitatingly used our medicines when he… — J.D. Salinger Hitler Copy Share Image
“Şi a plecat. Marinarul mi-a spus că-i pare bine de cunoştinţă, şi eu i-am spus acelaşi lucru. Politeţile astea mă ucid. Veşnic… — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes. Sometimes I can't even look at them, especially if… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Did you know, God damn it, that Les was all for bringing a tangerine in to you last night before he went… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records… — J.D. Salinger Education Copy Share Image
“That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there… — J.D. Salinger Meta Copy Share Image
“this sentence I'm reading is terrific" i can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood. He didn't get it, though. He… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I don't care where an actor acts. It can be in summer stock, it can be over a radio, it can be… — J.D. Salinger Actor Copy Share Image
“I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care… — J.D. Salinger Conversation Copy Share Image
“If or when I do start going to an analyst, I hope to God he has the foresight to let a dermatologist… — J.D. Salinger Dermatologist Copy Share Image
“Imagine the story you would most want to read, and then shamelessly write it.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The rest of us, he said, we are outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows how to do it except the Egyptians. Even modern science.” — J.D. Salinger Egyptians Copy Share Image
“All we do our entire lives is go to one piece of holy ground to another” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.” — J.D. Salinger Childhood Copy Share Image
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