Quote by J.D. Salinger Download Open image ““Anybody over sixteen without an ulcer's a goddamn spy.”” — J.D. Salinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“It was nothing like the spy films with exotic locations, heart-stopping danger, and smokin’ agents with telling scars.” — Charlie Evans Copy Share Image
“What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.” — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing quite as scorching as a teenager’s contempt. It has a breathless sting, and it lingers for a very long time.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“...old age insisted on revealing things. Yanking away crutches when we needed them most.” — Stacey McGlynn Copy Share Image
“I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of… — 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 feel like… — J.D. Salinger 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 and everything.… — J.D. Salinger 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 different would… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“And you make people nervous, young man," she said - most equably, for her. "You either take to somebody or you don't. If you… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.” — 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 pimple on… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“For example, when Seymour told one of the twins or Zooey or Franny or even Mme. Boo Boo (who was only two years younger… — J.D. Salinger 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 ground. We’d… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — 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!' to another… — j.d. salinger Copy Share Image
