“[Y]ou’re someone who took up birds in the first place because they fired your imagination; they fascinated you because ‘they seemed of… — J.D. Salinger Animals Copy Share Image
“I've met the girl. She's a zero in my opinion but terrific-looking. I don't actually know that she's a zero. I mean… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Old Luce. He was strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly had a good vocabulary. He had the largest vocabulary… — J.D. Salinger Language Copy Share Image
“While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer—that is, if you want to, and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick him up… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful,… — J.D. Salinger Beauty Copy Share Image
“It means that every man, woman, and child over the age, let us say, of twentyone or thirty, at the very outside,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“It seems to me indisputably true that a good many people, the wide world over, of varying ages, cultures, natural endowments, respond… — J.D. Salinger Compassion Copy Share Image
“Where I lived at Pencey, I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I see you are looking at my feet," he said to her when car was in motion. "I beg your pardon?" said… — J.D. Salinger Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“For about a whole month, at least, whenever anybody said anything that sounded campusy or phony, or that smelled to high heaven… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“For a psychoanalyst to be any good with Franny at all, he'd have to be a pretty peculiar type. I don't know.… — J.D. Salinger First place Copy Share Image
“It isn't just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness' sake. I mean if he were a girl - somebody in… — J.D. Salinger Business Copy Share Image
“How'd she happen to mention me? Does she do to B.M. now? She said she might go there. she said she might… — J.D. Salinger Horsing around Copy Share Image
“I think it should be done over, Buddy. …Please make peace with your wit. It's not going to go away, Buddy. To… — J.D. Salinger Peace Copy Share Image
“The bellboy that showed me to the room was this very old guy around sixty-five. He was even more depressing than the… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I got the idea in my head - and I could not get it out - that college was just one more… — J.D. Salinger Waste of time Copy Share Image
“Last month, Dean Sheeter (whose name usually transports Franny when I mention it) approached me with his gracious smile and bull whip,… — J.D. Salinger Buddhism Copy Share Image
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — J.D. Salinger Art Copy Share Image
“What happened was, I got the idea in my head-and I could not get it out ㅡ that college was just one… — J.D. Salinger Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“It started embarrassing me. I began to feel like such a nasty little egomaniac." She reflected. "I don't know. It seemed like… — J.D. Salinger Egomaniac Copy Share Image
“But you're wrong about that hating business. I mean about hating football players and all. You really are. I don't hate too… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“My father wrote beautifully,” Esmé interrupted. “I’m saving a number of his letters for posterity.” I said that sounded like a very… — J.D. Salinger Parenting Copy Share Image
“One of the thousand reasons I quit going to the theater when I was about twenty was that I resented like hell… — J.D. Salinger Holy ground Copy Share Image
“Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, you're going to start getting closer and closer--that is, if you want to, and… — J.D. Salinger First person Copy Share Image
“It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." "I know… — J.D. Salinger Catcher in the rye Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's… — J.D. Salinger Creativity Copy Share Image
“When Seymour and I were five and three, Les and Bessie played on the same bill for a couple of weeks with… — J.D. Salinger Good man Copy Share Image
“A legjobb abban a múzeumban mégis az, hogy minden mindig ott marad a helyén, ahol van. Semmi nem mozdul. Százezerszer is odamehetsz,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Тя се извини искрено, но без всякакво смущение, нещо повече — без всякаква сервилност, и на мен ми мина през ум, че… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“…he is invariably a kind of super-size but unmistakably ‘classical’ neurotic, an aberrant who only occasionally, and never deeply, wishes to surrender… — J.D. Salinger Health Copy Share Image
“You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“Never wants to what?” Meet anybody for a drink . Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“She's an irritating, opinionated woman- a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A… — J.D. Salinger Every night Copy Share Image
“Walt, at about eleven, had a routine of looking at Seymour's wrists and telling him to take off his sweater. "Take off… — J.D. Salinger Admiration Copy Share Image
“...What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A… — J.D. Salinger Books Copy Share Image
“He probably likes you. That's no reason to put ink all--" "I don't want him to like me," she said. Then she… — J.D. Salinger Every Minute Copy Share Image
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