FastSaying

You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time
You turn around. I know what I’m talking about. You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze
In this goddam phenomenal world.


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

You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J.D. SALINGER Your file was empty. Nothing. Not even an immunization record.” He didn’t even pretend to look s...
BECCA FITZPATRICK I love you when you’re happy.
I love you when you’re sad.
I love you if you’re ang...
CARLA J. HANNA The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the g...
E. LOCKHART My life will get better? You really believe that?" I ask.
“It can. If you’re willing to do...
MATTHEW QUICK You’re wasting your life being involved with me.”
“I’m not wasting anything.”
�...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a...
RICK RIORDAN You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need t...
CHRIS ROCK The way I feel about you . . . it’s crazy.”
“You got the crazy part right,” she snapped...
JAMIE MCGUIRE TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE

People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run o...
NIKITTA GILL What if you determined to fin one thing every day that you -...

I know. Count your blessi...
ELIZABETH BERG What specific do you want to know about life?
...

Starts when you get born... that's...
DEYTH BANGER You still want that little secret to stay secret?”

“You wouldn’t.”

“...
B.D. ROCA Elena glanced up at him, taking in his words. “If you get rid of your fear? You know, I never look...
DIANNA HARDY How is it every time we're talking about the real world, you manage to bring up fantasy, and every t...
JEFF ZENTNER Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the America...
AL CAPONE  “So how’d you do it? How did you get to where you aren’t scared all the freaking time?” DANIEL ABRAHAM Tikkun olam.”

Exactly. Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. A...
DAVID LEVITHAN If you have time to chatter,
Read books.

If you have time to read,
Walk into mo...
NANAO SAKAKI If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN As though sensing her heightening alarm, Pinfeathers halted his advance.

"I can’t help ...
KELLY CREAGH He struck his temples with his fists and screamed: 'Haven't you ever seen a goddam DC converter? You...
STEPHEN KING Problem is, you can’t accept that his relationship had a real short shelf life. You’re like a do...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium vol...
NICHOLAS SPARKS There is still one of which you never speak.'

Marco Polo bowed his head.

'Veni...
ITALO CALVINO The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally.
'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad s...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR Sometimes, you know, I just want to curl up and see if anyone notices I’m not there.
But I kn...
RAE EARL To the most inconsiderate asshole of a friend,
I’m writing you this letter because I know tha...
CECELIA AHERN The only one taking a risk here is me, if I get too attached to you.
It’s not risky for you, ...
CLAUDIA GRAY There were days when I still put on make up
in case you’d come back,
but I wear the sam...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Nice, Dex,” she sneered. “You couldn’t wait to get in her pants, could you? You’re a pig.”...
KARINA HALLE I don't think you realize who you're dealing with."

The man clicked his tongue, "If you w...
SARAH J. MAAS I have lived in the shadow of loss—the kind of loss that can paralyze you forever.
I have gri...
CHRISTINA RASMUSSEN I wouldn’t know what to do with daughters,' he says. 'Exchange them for sons?'

'But the...
KAUI HART HEMMINGS ROSE: I love you, Jack.

JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. ...
JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON You’re fearless.”
Draven laughed loudly and shook his head. Zarah frowned and crossed her a...
PIXIE LYNN WHITFIELD How much do you have in common with
this guy?"
"Not much. Basically we're polar opposites....
LISA KLEYPAS What,” Scarlet breathed, clutching the bouquet, “is this?”
Wolf smiled around his canine ...
MARISSA MEYER It takes a really long time to realize this, but if you’re lucky you eventually see that you’ve ...
C. JOYBELL C. I’M SORRY

I am developing a new board game. It’s called “I’m Sorry.” It’s als...
JOSé N. HARRIS What are you talking about? Are you sure you know what you’re talking about? I don’t hate anybod...
VIN DIESEL C’mon,” he said. “One foot in front of the other. You know how it’s done”
“You’re...
LEIGH BARDUGO Do you trust me?” Tam said it almost too softly to be heard.
I hesitated, sighed, then reach...
LISA SHEARIN You’re taking a nap? Come on, Kate, I need you for this fight. Stop lying around.”
“You m...
ILONA ANDREWS I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I got an A on the third quiz in American history,
an A,
dammit.
Last time I got a ...
THALIA CHALTAS It’s funny because my life is full of this:

you think you’re escaping, until you run ...
CHANGDICTATOR Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.
“No, I’m pretty sure you’re no...
VERONICA ROTH I've never really done that great there but I
enjoy the place. There's a couple of
tricky...
COLIN EDWARDS Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way yo...
MIRIAM MAKEBA H--‐how did we get in the water?”

“You were burning. I needed to do something to co...
ELISABETH NAUGHTON What if you are just destined to get hurt, to be helplessly stuck in a point of time you no longer w...
SANHITA BARUAH That’s what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hu...
SARAH DESSEN Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und...
JENNIFER ELISABETH And if you don’t think I can hold my own against all those eighteenth-century mortals you were out...
KRESLEY COLE I’m going to walk over to you,” I say, taking one step at a time in her direction like I’m tal...
KATJA MILLAY I’d kiss you, too, if I was closer.”(claire)
“I wouldn’t,” Michael said. “I don’t...
RACHEL CAINE I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with.
Tell me why you loved...
ANDREA GIBSON All I can think about is bed.”
“We’re sharing the same thought.”
“You’re think...
BECCA FITZPATRICK Work on.
" Work as if every time you started with and every time you finish.
LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Do you really want to know why you lost?” I asked.
“Do you really have an answer?” he cou...
MARIA V. SNYDER you’re already naked in this world
in this time
in this life
beacause your next lov...
BAHARAK SEDIGH You know, you’re topping from the bottom,” he murmurs against my lips.
“What?” I don’...
E.L. JAMES This isn’t about the Ravens. This is about you. This is about everything it took you to get to thi...
NORA SAKAVIC How often do you have to drink?”
“Every night, to feel good. Every few nights, to stay san...
RAINBOW ROWELL Does everything you touch turn to shit? Does this happen to you every time?"

"No wonder t...
DENIS JOHNSON That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,...
RICK YANCEY See? Grumpy. And defensive. If you need help, ask me, you stubborn asshole.”
“Right, like y...
MAISEY YATES The Blue Bird
from The Last Night of the Earth Poems

there’s a bluebird in my hear...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You’d better not be messing with me. I like you, but if you’re feeding me a load of shit just to...
JEANIENE FROST I like when you look at me like you can’t figure me out. You’re considering getting to know me, ...
KATE ANGELL I’m not a kid!” she told Shane hotly. “I’m only, like, a year younger than Eve!”
“A...
RACHEL CAINE You know what I like about you, Finch? You’re interesting. You’re different. And I can talk to y...
JENNIFER NIVEN Here’s something I bet you don’t know:
every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE And I know I’ve lost.
Everything is lost.
Everything is over.
“As the newly appoi...
PATRICK NESS The first time I met you, you told me you grew up here, I’d call you a liar,” Tate informed me.<...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Why didn't you write all this time?
Did you not remember us in a song?
A dance?
In th...
KAMAND KOJOURI I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and si...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love ...
ANNA KOURNIKOVA “I’m going to tell myself that you’re just cranky because Chloe’s at the mall with Tori,...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG Questions, I've got some questions
I want to know you
But what if I could ask you only one...
JACK JOHNSON True knights protect the weak.”

He snorted. “There are no true knights, no more than...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Do you remember back at the hotel when you promised that if we lived, you’d get dressed up in a nu...
CASSANDRA CLARE Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU You don’t need to spend every waking moment protecting me now. I’m supposed to be your partner, ...
AIMEE CARTER But ... but what if I hit you?”
A snort. “You’re not going to hit me.”
“How do y...
JULIE KAGAWA And besides, we’re not really all that different. Although I think I’m a little more . . . ” JILL SHALVIS You don't retire from this." -Billy Johns
"I know." -Melanie Adams
Billy: “If you know t...
ROSIE SCOTT Barabas placed a stack on the table and held the chair out for me. “For you.”
“I’m hun...
ILONA ANDREWS Put down your glass,
it is time to dance.
If you want to get drunk
all you need is...
KAMAND KOJOURI You know that because you asked me out, you’re the one who has to pick the place, right?”
T...
STEPHANIE PERKINS There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and ...
TAYLOR SWIFT Who says you only get one? If you're lucky, you will meet The One, The Two, The Three.....and so on....
CATHY HOPKINS We’re not talking about you. You’re Braith of the Darkness. I’m Addolgar the Cheerful. I’ve ...
G.A. AIKEN I’m mean? That’s the worst you can throw at me?”
“Mean and self-pitying. Does that make...
MICHAEL GRANT Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.

I fidgeted around with th...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

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 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 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