“Fortunately, I find that if a situation is funny or risible enough, I tend to bleed less profusely.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“On sul mõnikord kõigest villand? On sul mõnikord hirm, et kõik läheb kuradile, kui sa ise ei hakka vastu rabelema?” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy” — J.D. Salinger Happiness Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Ah, Sharon Lipschutz," said the young man. "How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.” — J.D. Salinger Desire Copy Share Image
“After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains.” — J.D. Salinger Brains Copy Share Image
“One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!” — J.D. Salinger Artist Copy Share Image
“People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.” — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just see… — J.D. Salinger Fake-christians Copy Share Image
“But most of all, above everything else, who in the Bible besides Jesus knew - knew - that we're carrying the Kingdom… — J.D. Salinger Bible Copy Share Image
“It's funny. You take adults, they look lousy when they're asleep and they have their mouths way open, but kids don't. Kids… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“An instant later, a silk hat materialised in the air beside me, considerably down and to the left, and my special, only… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“All I know is I’m losing my mind,” Franny said. “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act… — J.D. Salinger Growing up Copy Share Image
“There is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions,… — J.D. Salinger Danger Copy Share Image
“When she was done whispering in the mike and being cute as hell, they'd sing a song half in English and half… — J.D. Salinger Humor Copy Share Image
“You talk about piling up treasure - money, property, culture, knowledge, and so on and so on. In going ahead with the… — J.D. Salinger Material things 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
“Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and… — J.D. Salinger Clever Copy Share Image
“When you don't see Jesus for exactly what he was, you miss the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. If you don't… — J.D. Salinger New testament Copy Share Image
“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around… — J.D. Salinger Altruism Copy Share Image
“When I’d checked into the bathroom with Seymour’s diary under my arm, and had carefully secured the door behind me, I spotted… — J.D. Salinger Sappho Copy Share Image
“The's what nearly drove me crazy. All the visitors could get in their cars and turn on their radios and all and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Oh, Romeo and Juliet! Lovely! Didn’t you just love it?”She certainly didn’t sound like a nun. “Yes. I did. I liked it… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be… — J.D. Salinger Androgynous Copy Share Image
“The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that.… — J.D. Salinger Animals Copy Share Image
“All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I dig my fox-holes down to a cowardly depth. Am scared stiff constantly and can't remember ever having been a civilian.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are!” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I am not exactly wallowing in guilt at the moment, but guilt is guilt.It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified.” — J.D. Salinger Guilt Copy Share Image
“I've missed you." The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.” — J.D. Salinger Language Copy Share Image
“He wasn't even listening. He hardly ever listened to you when you said anything.” — J.D. Salinger Communication Copy Share Image
“Do you have any emotions?" "If I do, I don't remember when I ever used them. I don't see what they're good… — J.D. Salinger Emotions Copy Share Image
“...her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership had been fully served.” — J.D. Salinger Heart Copy Share Image
“The cigars are ballast, sweetheart. Sheer ballast. If he didn’t have a cigar to hold on to, his feet would leave the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, if you really want to know, half of the nastiness in the world is stirred up by people who… — J.D. Salinger Egos Copy Share Image
