“No cuenten nunca nada a nadie. En el momento en que uno cuenta cualquier cosa, empieza a echar de menos a todo… — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was… The only thing that would be… — J.D. Salinger Best thing Copy Share Image
“¡Dios mío! ¡Cómo me fastidia que me digan «Buena suerte» cuando me voy de alguna parte! Es de lo más deprimente” — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.” — J.D. Salinger Funny Copy Share Image
“I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“My God, think of the opportunities and thrusts that lie ahead when one knows without a shred of doubt how commonplace and… — J.D. Salinger 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
“But fishing, as we know, in libraries or anywhere else, is a tricky business, with never a certainty of who's going to… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Undoubtedly, though, what I'm really getting at is this: Since the bridegroom's permanent retirement from the scene, I haven't been able to… — J.D. Salinger Horses Copy Share Image
“Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded,… — J.D. Salinger Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I thought the two ugly ones, Marty and Laverne, were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could… — J.D. Salinger Funny Copy Share Image
“Meet anybody for a drink. Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television writer for a drink downtown,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it… — J.D. Salinger Book Copy Share Image
“What, I wonder, does the reader know of large families? More important, how much can he stand hearing on the subject, from… — J.D. Salinger Age difference Copy Share Image
“That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“Somewhat overly legibly, I wrote on a sheet of paper, "We're held up indefinitely by the parade. We're going to find a… — J.D. Salinger Old man Copy Share Image
“I do like him. I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect… …… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I have scars on my hand from touching certain people. Once, in the park, when Frannie was still in the carriage, I… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“You’ve got a goddamn bug today—you know that? What the hell’s the matter with you anyway?" Franny quickly tipped her cigarette ash,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I would like you to clear up for me just what the hell your motives are for saying it.' He hesitated, but… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego… — J.D. Salinger Ego Copy Share Image
“A few years before, it had taken her three days to dispose of the Easter chick she had found dead on the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“God damn it, there are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You're a little girl but nobody stays a little girl or a little boy for long. It's a quick business being a… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“How do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I feel like someone in a terribly sophisticated play. The funny part is, I'm not sophisticated. I'm not anything. I'm just me.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I act a lot older than I am – I really do – but people never notice it. People never notice anything.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I mean you'd be different in some way- I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I’m sorry, I’m awful, I’ve just felt so terribly destructive all week. It’s awful. I’m horrible.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you a terrible secret — Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.” — J.D. Salinger Secret Copy Share Image
“The thing is, it drives me crazy if somebody else gets killed—especially somebody very smart and entertaining and all—and it’s somebody else’s… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.” — J.D. Salinger Ambition Copy Share Image
“We're the tattooed lady, and we're never going to have a minute's peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“...my atoms, moreover, are arranged to make me constitutionally inclined to believe that where there's smoke there's usually strawberry Jello, seldom fire...” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And I like his conceit. He's so conceited he's actually humble, the crazy bastard.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
