“His date kept saying to him, "How horrible . . . Don't, darling. Please, don't. Not here." Imagine giving somebody a feel… — J.D. Salinger Committing suicide Copy Share Image
“They gave Sally this little blue butt-twitcher of a dress to wear. She really did look damn good in it, though. I… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“...my life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I… — J.D. Salinger Life 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
“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
“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
“And, in my opinion, that's one of the reasons why you're having this little nervous breakdown. And es pec ially the reason… — J.D. Salinger Ghost Copy Share Image
“That was the worst. What happened was, I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out… — J.D. Salinger Treasure Copy Share Image
“I thought it was, "If a body catch a body," Anyway, i keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in… — J.D. Salinger 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
“I'm profoundly attracted to classical Zen literature, I have the gall to lecture on it and the literature of Mahayana Buddhism one… — J.D. Salinger Books 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
“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
“In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!'… — j.d. salinger 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
“What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by. I mean I've left schools… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“God almighty, Franny," he said. "If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to… — J.D. Salinger Christianity 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 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 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
“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
“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
“I glanced past her and behind her, furtively, at the fifth passenger-the tiny elderly man-to see if his insularity was still in… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Where before we Comanches had simply stared at her femaleness, we now glared at it. She smiled back at us. It was… — J.D. Salinger Humor Copy Share Image
“Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...' Sensitive. That killed me. That… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Think how practical, pleasant, and thrilling it would be if one could open one’s mouth, from time to time, and something other… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Tell you what we'll do," she said. "We'll drive to town and get some pickles, and some bread, and we'll eat the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The Navy guy and I told each other we were glad to've met each other. Which always kils me. I'm always saing… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for… — J.D. Salinger Classics Copy Share Image
“Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. [...] They… — J.D. Salinger Anxiety Copy Share Image
“If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it… — J.D. Salinger Education Copy Share Image
“You know what the trouble with me is? I can never get really sexy―I mean really sexy―with a girl I don't like… — J.D. Salinger Sexy Copy Share Image
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