FastSaying

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!


J.D. Salinger

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER Once you recognize within yourself a hunger for something beyond just continuing, once you taste eve...
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely....
DAN SMITH Having wisdom and knowledge is ineffective if you don’t have understanding
TYREL D. LINING There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received...
BRIGHAM YOUNG Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become c...
AMAKA IMANI NKOSAZANA For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giv...
ECCLESIASTES 7:12 There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of informa...
RACHEL CAINE Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in the face?
...
CLAUDIA GRAY There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must hav...
TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: that wisdom prese...
KING SOLOMON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES H. SPURGEON The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you.
MARK BROWN There is a simple rule regarding wisdom: those who have a superficial knowledge cannot be wise. On t...
ERALDO BANOVAC At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
LLOYD ALEXANDER A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your accou...
JOHN RAMPTON It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience t...
VICTORIA OSTEEN You hear that every once in a while.
JASON KOEHNKE Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON I think that must be the dumbest one I've ever heard. I mean, every year you hear more and more rumo...
KEVIN YOUNG Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a ...
RALPH CUDWORTH At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like...
MEREDITH GREY Don’t despise any experience. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD There are all these relationships that are like cookie cutter shapes; identical and repetitive. Then...
C. JOYBELL C. If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that arm...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON I laid myself fucking bare last night! I put it all out there, and you shut me down. Rightfully so. ...
JENNY HAN It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, ...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the presen...
HANS BLIX The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and ...
WILLIAM COWPER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, ba...
FRANK NEWPORT Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - Th...
BALTASAR GRACIAN You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important par...
ROBERT JORDAN As a human being, it is normal to feel agitated or angry at times. There are many valid reasons to b...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge t...
KATY PERRY I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else your co-star, per...
LEMONY SNICKET A person who has wisdom understands that the knowledge can only be acquired not common sense,which i...
ANUJ SOMANY Big data will have a great impact on human intelligence and wisdom. Wisdom is often lost in knowledg...
WOHI PURANA Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that know...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I think there?s a lot of wisdom in that kind of modification. That was something we never thought ab...
GREGG PATTERSON One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there a...
GEORGE OSBORNE I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much...
CECELIA AHERN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; le...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest w...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it / and stop there; les...
MARK TWAIN Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Every once in a while, you would smell a pungent odor that would come out of the system. We made cha...
RAY PLATTER If you would have told me before that we would have held them to 39 points, I would've taken that in...
BYRON UTTER That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, a...
ANN PATCHETT Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its comp...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless n...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, ...
NINA LACOUR The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge. To accept...
JAGAD GURU CHRIS BUTLER Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don�...
VINCE LOMBARDI If you can just stop loving her then you never really loved her at all. Love doesn't work that way. ...
BLAKNEY FRANCIS I just started crying. You hear all the time that people think it will never happen to you. I never ...
JENNIFER ORAND Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. You are always afraid that somebody may think you a fool. You are afraid that if others think you to...
OSHO A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
ROBERT SOUTHEY We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; les...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wi...
PATIENCE JOHNSON Knowledge without the wisdom to use it is useless. However, that same wisdom is powerless without th...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Knowledge is the beauty of a diamond, but wisdom is the shining reflection of that beauty.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I told them, 'Just stop fumbling.' That was a real nugget of wisdom there.
BRUCE KAY Your email inbox is a bit like a Las Vegas roulette machine. You know, you just check it and check i...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short whil...
DANIEL KEYES I remember a relative of mine who used to pick on me all the time, constantly ridiculing my every mo...
C. JOYBELL C. Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. The...
HERMAN MELVILLE Once they got them out of the elevator they did go into shock. It was a little chaotic down there fo...
GARY HEWSON Within you is a fountain of wisdom. And you sell yourself short every time you allow some authority ...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be c...
PABLO PICASSO A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be c...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO if you look beyond every fooly, there is always some trait of wisdom, like wise in every wisdom fool...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You don't want to lose sight of just how amazing he is. You've got to kick yourself once in a while ...
MARK FEW Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always...
AMEEN RIHANI Bianca Olivier- Hear me out. Would you eat a hamburger if there was any chance it could punch you in...
CLAUDIA GRAY Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always in...
ASHLY LORENZANA Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I wanted to say in the Security Council, "There is no cause for alarm. The rumbling sound that you h...
LORD CARADON You may need knowledge and wisdom to learn and live, Skills to survive but a heart is all that is ne...
MARK LAMBERT MOTHER NATURE GAVE YOU A BELLY BUTTON ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. A Belly Button is an odd gift indeed but it ...
ED BULEY Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human valu...
SIDNEY HOOK I was a little nervous there for a while, but I always believed we would win this game. I told my gu...
LAVERNE KNOX On top of all that, you're naked. And while I'm going to hate myself for this later, could you put o...
LISH MCBRIDE I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the...
JOAN D. VINGE

More J.D. Salinger

I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a...
J.D. SALINGER I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.
J.D. SALINGER What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that ...
J.D. SALINGER This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling ...
J.D. SALINGER I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to b...
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. T...
J.D. SALINGER You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J.D. SALINGER Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J.D. SALINGER If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?
J.D. SALINGER That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look ...
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. SALINGER He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to ...
J.D. SALINGER I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay a...
J.D. SALINGER All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J.D. SALINGER I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really ...
J.D. SALINGER when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.
J.D. SALINGER The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature...
J.D. SALINGER Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightene...
J.D. SALINGER Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
J.D. SALINGER I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J.D. SALINGER I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even kn...
J.D. SALINGER I thought what I'd do was I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.
J.D. SALINGER Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
J.D. SALINGER who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
J.D. SALINGER I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this.
J.D. SALINGER And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
J.D. SALINGER She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J.D. SALINGER Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enoug...
J.D. SALINGER Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
J.D. SALINGER If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And...
J.D. SALINGER I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. SALINGER Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of thos...
J.D. SALINGER I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants ...
J.D. SALINGER The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy...
J.D. SALINGER I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless t...
J.D. SALINGER She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies ...
J.D. SALINGER I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to ha...
J.D. SALINGER She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, hol...
J.D. SALINGER You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time
You turn ar...
J.D. SALINGER Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever...
J.D. SALINGER Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to...
J.D. SALINGER Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm no...
J.D. SALINGER My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minu...
J.D. SALINGER Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.
J.D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J.D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yell...
J.D. SALINGER Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J.D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J.D. SALINGER It’s history. It’s poetry.
J.D. SALINGER Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
J.D. SALINGER I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
J.D. SALINGER The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
J.D. SALINGER I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.
J.D. SALINGER I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J.D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J.D. SALINGER An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J.D. SALINGER I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.
J.D. SALINGER Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and...
J.D. SALINGER D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know w...
J.D. SALINGER That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. SALINGER I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometime...
J.D. SALINGER I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. An...
J.D. SALINGER As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his pri...
J.D. SALINGER Rudford lay on his back in the grass and watched great cotton clouds slip through the sky. Peculiarl...
J.D. SALINGER چیزی که دنبالش می‌گشتم یه جور احساس خدافظی بود. می‌خوا...
J.D. SALINGER Think about this truck. Make believe this is not the darkest, wettest, most miserable Army truck you...
J.D. SALINGER I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a...
J.D. SALINGER Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige th...
J.D. SALINGER After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange...
J.D. SALINGER I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER If or when I do start going to an analyst, I hope to God he has the foresight to let a dermatologist...
J.D. SALINGER You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world...
J.D. SALINGER She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser...
J.D. SALINGER Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your...
J.D. SALINGER I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-bloo...
J.D. SALINGER Give me an honest con man any day.
J.D. SALINGER You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J.D. SALINGER I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you ha...
J.D. SALINGER I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.
J.D. SALINGER I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J.D. SALINGER It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J.D. SALINGER Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, som...
J.D. SALINGER And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or s...
J.D. SALINGER This whole goddamn house stinks of ghosts.
J.D. SALINGER The thing he was afraid of, he was afraid somebody'd say something smarter than he had.
J.D. SALINGER He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just se...
J.D. SALINGER Oh, I don’t know. That digression business got on my nerves. I don’t know. The trouble with me i...
J.D. SALINGER John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.
J.D. SALINGER I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door."<...
J.D. SALINGER Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic.
J.D. SALINGER When I'd originally loaded the car and held the door open for him, I'd had a passing impulse to pick...
J.D. SALINGER I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when ...
J.D. SALINGER 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 He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave ...
J.D. SALINGER These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're runn...
J.D. SALINGER If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the w...
J.D. SALINGER It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt l...
J.D. SALINGER Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J.D. SALINGER The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'...
J.D. SALINGER People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J.D. SALINGER People are always ruining things for you.
J.D. SALINGER When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to ...
J.D. SALINGER I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
J.D. SALINGER is he crazy?" --Harcourt-Brace editor on Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER When I really worry about something, I don´t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom wh...
J.D. SALINGER The thing is, it's really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than th...
J.D. SALINGER That digression business got on my nerves. I don't now. The trouble with me is, I like it whe...
J.D. SALINGER It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns...
J.D. SALINGER the sentence im reading is terrific ...
J.D. SALINGER I don’t even like old cars. I mean, they don’t even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam...
J.D. SALINGER You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were ha...
J.D. SALINGER Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi...
J.D. SALINGER What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I proba...
J.D. SALINGER That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and ...
J.D. SALINGER I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.
J.D. SALINGER Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if th...
J.D. SALINGER We're freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I'm a twenty-five-year-old freak and she's a twenty-one-y...
J.D. SALINGER I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I ...
J.D. SALINGER I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I...
J.D. SALINGER I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn ne...
J.D. SALINGER You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
J.D. SALINGER There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks...
J.D. SALINGER I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could te...
J.D. SALINGER Well. He's a very sensitive boy. He's really never been a terribly good mixer with other boys...' J.D. SALINGER I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever tol...
J.D. SALINGER Do you have any emotions?"
"If I do, I don't remember when I ever used them. I don't see what t...
J.D. SALINGER He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream--...
J.D. SALINGER Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.
J.D. SALINGER Mary Jane. Listen. Please," Eloise said, sobbing. "You remember our freshman year, and I had that br...
J.D. SALINGER Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.
J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER My father wrote beautifully,” Esmé interrupted. “I’m saving a number of his letters for poste...
J.D. SALINGER Ah, Sharon Lipschutz," said the young man. "How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire.
J.D. SALINGER You're just being logical...You're just giving me a regular, intelligent answer. I was trying to hel...
J.D. SALINGER I see you are looking at my feet," he said to her when car was in motion.
"I beg your pardon?" ...
J.D. SALINGER You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nichol...
J.D. SALINGER But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they ...
J.D. SALINGER That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres...
J.D. SALINGER I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak ...
J.D. SALINGER I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the...
J.D. SALINGER Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J.D. SALINGER Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey...
J.D. SALINGER Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ...
J.D. SALINGER Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?' he asked. 'You know w...
J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp...
J.D. SALINGER They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It'...
J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif...
J.D. SALINGER You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logi...
J.D. SALINGER If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable...
J.D. SALINGER Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things ...
J.D. SALINGER We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with ...
J.D. SALINGER Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them-especially if they were about a thousa...
J.D. SALINGER If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. SALINGER People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
J.D. SALINGER Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all—...
J.D. SALINGER I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...
J.D. SALINGER If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate ev...
J.D. SALINGER It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm goin...
J.D. SALINGER I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J.D. SALINGER It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J.D. SALINGER Sleep tight, ya morons!
J.D. SALINGER Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J.D. SALINGER If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J.D. SALINGER Everybody in this family gets his goddamn religion in a different package.
J.D. SALINGER Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield
J.D. SALINGER She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...
J.D. SALINGER One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say...
J.D. SALINGER You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking abo...
J.D. SALINGER Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the...
J.D. SALINGER Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J.D. SALINGER We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, tw...
J.D. SALINGER -Hey, listen," I said. "You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That litt...
J.D. SALINGER If you're not in
the mood, you can't do that stuff right.
J.D. SALINGER I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
J.D. SALINGER There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just ...
J.D. SALINGER I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy
J.D. SALINGER Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. How well o...
J.D. SALINGER O tipo da marinha e eu dissemos um ao outro que tinha sido um prazer. Que é uma coisa que me deixa ...
J.D. SALINGER People always think something's all true.
J.D. SALINGER It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you...
J.D. SALINGER Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J.D. SALINGER Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Budd...
J.D. SALINGER I don't like it when it stings,' he said. 'Nobody does.
J.D. SALINGER American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President.
PIERRE SALINGER