“That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“We know the sound of two hands clapping. But what is the sound of one hand clapping? – A Zen Kōan” — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a horrible exhausting struggle; one would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some… — J.D. Salinger Book Copy Share Image
“I mean 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
“They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all-I'm not saying that-but they're also touchy as hell.” — J.D. Salinger Parenting Copy Share Image
“No odio a todos. Los odio unas cuantas horas o unos cuantos días, pero después se me pasa” — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody - you can be a good guy and do it.” — J.D. Salinger Bad guy Copy Share Image
“It's hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.” — J.D. Salinger Roommates 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
“I privately say to you old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parenthesis:… — J.D. Salinger Friendship Copy Share Image
“There were half circles under her eyes and other, subtler signs that mark an acutely troubled young girl, but nonetheless no one… — J.D. Salinger Beauty 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“TINA: Oh, Rick, Rick, I’m scared. What’s happened to us? I can’t seem to find us any more. I reach out and… — J.D. Salinger Farewell to arms Copy Share Image
“I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I… — J.D. Salinger Atheist Copy Share Image
“The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like… — J.D. Salinger Humorous 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
“I went down by a different staircase, and i saw another "fuck you" on the wall. I tried to rub it off… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The connection was so bad, and I couldn't talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I started bitching one night before the broadcast. Seymour'd told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm not sensitive to… — J.D. Salinger Beauty Copy Share Image
“When they argue, there can be no danger of a permanent rift, because they're Mother and Daughter. A terrible and beautiful phenomenon… — J.D. Salinger Daughter 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
“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
“I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I said I thought she had a very fine voice. She nodded. 'I know. I'm going to be a professional singer.' 'Really?… — J.D. Salinger Money Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Did anybody say anything about being flawless? Perfection is an absolutely different word, magnificently left hanging for the human being’s kind benefit… — J.D. Salinger Excellence Copy Share Image
“They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny. I swear to God,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Hi,' he said. He always said it like he was terrifically bored or terrifically tired. He didn't want you to think he… — J.D. Salinger Failure Copy Share Image
“God damn it," he said, "there are nice things in the world- and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“No importa que la sensación sea triste o hasta desagradable, pero cuando me voy de un sitio me gusta darme cuenta de… — J.D. Salinger Amor Copy Share Image
“That’s a deer shooting hat.' 'Like hell it is.' I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do… — J.D. Salinger Life Copy Share Image
“He stuck around till around dinnertime, talking about all the guys at Pencey that he hated their guts, and squeezing this big… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
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