I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone . . . I'd cook all my own food, and later on, if I wanted to get married or something, I'd meet this beautiful girl that was also a deaf-mute and we'd get married. She'd come and live in my cabin with me, and if she wanted to say anything to me, she'd have to write it on a piece of paper, like everybody else
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"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