Quote by J.D. Salinger Download Open image ““...her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership had been fully served.”” — J.D. Salinger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The thrill of telling her true feelings without considering good manners or the propriety of what she had to say was intoxicating.” — Sara Donati Copy Share Image
“Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death.” — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
“It amazed her how much people wanted to talk at parties. And about nothing in particular.” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“The only thing that counted to her was her own opinion of herself. If that became smirched or spoiled there would be nothing left.… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“All of her news was bad and so her talk was punctuated with "of course" and "naturally.” — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Was it worth saying that she was no longer going to do anything for anyone since it seemed to her that the more generous… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
“She always said that she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way.” — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share
“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
