“ Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on t… J. D. Salinger
“ I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in.Anybody else except Ackley would've taken the goddamn hint. Not him though...What the hellya reading?Goddamn book. J. D. Salinger
“ There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. J. D. Salinger
“ 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
“ 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… J. D. Salinger
“ 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
“ I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. J. D. Salinger
“ In the first place, I hateactors. They never act like people. They just think theydo. J. D. Salinger
“ Act, Zachary Martin Glass, when and where you want to, since you feel you must, but do it with all your might. J. D. Salinger
“ And I hate to tell you,' he said, 'but I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school. You'll have to. You're a student - whether the… J. D. Salinger
“ A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. J. D. Salinger
“ The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of… J. D. Salinger
“ You keep records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them. If you want to Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement.… J. D. Salinger
