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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Sa...
LOUIS SACHAR Love’s not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It’s real and...
NORA ROBERTS I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the f...
WHIT STILLMAN The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
WILLIAM H. GASS How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?
GEORGE CARLIN How to uplift others. It’s not a pie, it’s a cake. It’s not a ladder, it’s a bridge.
RICHIE NORTON The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS It’s not lying, it’s flirting.
NEIL STRAUSS Think about this truck. Make believe this is not the darkest, wettest, most miserable Army truck you...
J.D. SALINGER . . . It’s me?”
“Of course it’s you.
KIERA CASS And when I don’t feel it, it’s pointless.
Think about getting up it’s pointless.
Thi...
SARAH KANE It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s...
ANNA WINTOUR Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.
CARRIE ARNOLD Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.
ROBIN WILLIAMS It’s too late if you think it’s too late.
SCOTTIE SOMERS It’s not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, it’s homophobia. It’s not the color...
ASHTON APPLEWHITE It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO When it’s slow, trade it slow, when it’s quick, trade it quick and when it’s not moving, go to...
50PIPS It’s all about ROI and it’s not Return of Ignorance. ROI is not a formula, it’s a responsibili...
LILY CHATTERJEE It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where there is, but I believe it’s somewhere, ...
JOHN GREEN [She thought it would be hard. There's an aura around Koufax. He's thought to be the J.D. Salinger o...
JANE LEAVY It’s time for second chances. It’s time to remake the world.
JANDY NELSON It’s not the world that’s cruel. It’s the people in it.
NORA SAKAVIC Don’t be impatient. It’s not over until God says it’s over.
JOEL OSTEEN I love you. It’s not a weight you must carry around. I love you. It’s not a box that holds you i...
UNKNOWN When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
H.L. MENCKEN It’s not what your are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.
OSCAR LEVANT Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade ...
TARA KELLY Like Mom, Zoe thought–like Mom used to. And that’s where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poet...
ANNETTE CURTIS KLAUSE It’s not about living in a sleek loft with three pieces of designer furniture. It’s not daring, ...
FRANCINE JAY It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS It’s not reality that creates your beliefs, it’s your beliefs that create reality.
STEVEN AITCHISON A society unable to think on it’s feet, will die on it’s back.
ANONYMOUSSOURCES Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.
LADY GAGA Three things you cannot recover in life: the
WORD after it’s said, the MOMENT after it’s
missed ...
GUNDO MULAUDZI The planet’s famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it’s not just a desert....
ANDY WEIR Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know where there...
JOHN GREEN Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where ther...
JOHN GREEN Thomas Edison’s last words were: “It’s very beautiful over there.” I don’t know where ther...
JOHN GREEN It’s not a confession if no one reads it. It’s just an unshared secret.
COLLEEN HOOVER But it’s almost wonderful when it’s fine and still almost bearable when it isn't.
ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.
- Leonard
MORGAN MATSON The point of being good is doing it when it’s tough, not when it’s easy.
SALLY GREEN It’s not me standing; it’s my future with my Label on my heart. Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ The show doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30.
LORNE MICHAELS When everyone leaves you it’s loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it’s solitude.
ALFRED POLGAR It’s not if you
Tweet,
Like,
and Share.
It’s if you’re
Sweet,
Polite,
and Care.
OTHEN DONALD DALE CUMMINGS Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it befo...
LEMONY SNICKET It’s impossible to treat everyone equal but it’s possible to give equal opportunities to everyon...
CASSIO DE NOVA' Manufacturing is Relevant, but it’s a Different Kind of Manufacturing Because it’s Really Smart ...
MICHAEL HARRIS Sometimes it’s easier to pretend you don’t care than to admit that it’s killing you.
ANONYMOUS I will never stop loving you, I know it’s a cliché but it’s damn true.
ANNIE FISHER Life is the muse which perfectly rhymes,
Plays with the words and fills empty lines.
NINO VARSIMASHVILI ubiquitous, adj.
When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It�...
DAVID LEVITHAN It’s not nice being inside my head. It’s a nice place to visit but I don’t want to live in her...
CARRIE FISHER Life isn’t about being perfect; it’s about improving. It’s not about achieving more, acquiring...
TONI SORENSON It’s funny how when it’s somebody else telling the story it’s easy to see that He can’t take...
MELISSA DECARLO If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT But it’s up to us …’ he said softly. ‘It’s up to us not to lose this
RAINBOW ROWELL It’s a plié. You do it on all the positions. It’s very good for dramatic moments.
ANNE URSU It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.
DENIS WAITLEY It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It’s war, you jackasses,” Keyes snapped. “I’m sorry it’s not terribly convenient or comfor...
JOHN SCALZI A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to y...
DONALD L. HICKS It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confuse...
AMIT ABRAHAM It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re stil...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS you’re ignoring me so loud that it’s deafening.
This silence is so deep that it’s echoin...
ANNA JAE It’s not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that’s deftly deluding mankind. It’s ...
PAWAN MISHRA In certain circumstances, basically shit ones, it’s fight or flight. With Tommy it’s always frig...
TERRY WEIBLE MURPHY It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.
HARRY TRUMAN Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history...
ARISTOTLE Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Sometimes it’s like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It’s like you...
JENNY HAN Ugly or pretty, personal tastes determine the limits of the look. “It’s a very thin line and it�...
LADY GAGA When children say it’s time to leave, they mean, “It’s time to leave.” When grownups say so,...
ANDREW PETERSON Animosity is a weapon, and it’s not used against the person you can’t forgive – it’s used ag...
PORTIA MOORE Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who ...
TONY SCHWARTZ It’s not that I’ve been invited to the hole I’m standing in. It’s that I accepted the invita...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing
CONNOR FRANTA It’s not the place that creates the magic, Ryder. It’s the person. The magic is wherever you are...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER I think it’s great,
ROBERT DAVENPORT Dogma... it’s a bitch:)
KEN O. ELDIB Mistakes mean it’s real.
KIERA CASS Active racism is telling a nurse supervisor that an African American nurse can’t touch your baby. ...
JODI PICOULT It’s not about optimism, pessimism or realism. It’s not about thinking nothing bad will ever hap...
BROWNELL LANDRUM It’s no big deal. It’s kind of like a tattoo. It won’t hurt, not too much, just a few stitches...
NATHAN REESE MAHER The healthy life: It’s not just about losing the weight; it’s about losing the mentality that go...
STEVE MARABOLI This happens everywhere, ... It’s not like something that happened in the sixties, it’s a lot mo...
CHARLIZE THERON Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all her...
VICTOR ROBERT LEE It’s easy to give up,
It’s hard to fight,
A gentle soft kiss makes you feel delight.
BAJRANG SULTANIA The male ego is a curious thing. It’s about the size of a small continent but it’s extremely bri...
CHARLES STROSS It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s the fear of not writing well; something qu...
SCOTT BERKUN Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’...
BRIAN TRACY 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 ...
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J.D. SALINGER This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling ...
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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?
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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.
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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 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 I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a whil...
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