“Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.” — J.D. Salinger Family Copy Share Image
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?” — J.D. Salinger Girl Copy Share Image
“If you've had a freakish education, at least use it, use it.” — J.D. Salinger Education Copy Share Image
“I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“How would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is you wouldn't.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You never get to sit next to the window any more when you're married.” — J.D. Salinger Marriage Copy Share Image
“The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I said no, there would't be marvelous places to go to after I went to college and all. Open your ears. It'd… — J.D. Salinger College Copy Share Image
“That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dressed… — J.D. Salinger Cats Copy Share Image
“Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed me.” — J.D. Salinger Committing suicide Copy Share Image
“...publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I love to write.” — J.D. Salinger Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“He could hear me alright...but he didn't answer me right away. He was the kind of guy that hates to answer you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“They make everything they touch turn absolutely academic and useless. To my mind, They're mostly to blame for the mob of ignorant… — J.D. Salinger Graduation Copy Share Image
“You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?’ he asked. ‘You know what was… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if… — J.D. Salinger Fall in love Copy Share Image
“In a cruel manner of speaking, this young woman may well have lost her head before she was born; it is certainly… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Everything everybody does is so - I don’t know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so… — J.D. Salinger Bohemian Copy Share Image
“I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“What about your beloved Epictetus? Or your beloved Emily Dickinson? You want your Emily, every time she has an urge to write… — J.D. Salinger Poetry Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the… — J.D. Salinger Education Copy Share Image
“The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs--if yours are really… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I think he had a very, very good smile, for somebody whose teeth were somewhere between so-so and bad. What seems not… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most… — J.D. Salinger Atheist Copy Share Image
“We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are! You're the most impossible person to… — J.D. Salinger Cold Copy Share Image
“Finally, though, I’d leave the room without even taking a sock at him. I’d probably go down to the can and sneak… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“But what I don’t like — and what I don’t think either Seymour or Buddy would like, either, as a matter of… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“We’re all animals,’ he said. ‘Basically, we’re all animals.” — J.D. Salinger Animal Copy Share Image
“Don't ever tell anybody anything, or you'll start missing everybody.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.” — J.D. Salinger Astronomy Copy Share Image
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