J. D. Salinger Quotes


I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. J. D. Salinger Love 105
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell. J. D. Salinger Money 103
People always clap for the wrong reasons. J. D. Salinger Uncategorized 84
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. J. D. Salinger Funny 76
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. J. D. Salinger Uncategorized 73
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. J. D. Salinger Accuse 72
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. J. D. Salinger Movies 68
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger Happiness 52
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people. J. D. Salinger Uncategorized 48
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.” – J.D. Salinger, “Franny and Zooey” J. D. Salinger Artist 44

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