J.D. Salinger Quotes

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they...

I never saw such a bunch of apple-eaters.

I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen

I'm way off. I'll just ruin the whole weekend. Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.

If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.

I’m sorry, I’m awful, I’ve just felt so terribly destructive all week. It’s awful. I’m horrible.

Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

Never wants to what?Meet anybody for a . Oh, he had to go out last night and meet this television writer for a drink downtown, in the Village and all. That’s what started it. He says the only people h...

No odio a todos. Los odio unas cuantas horas o unos cuantos días, pero después se me pasa

On sul mõnikord kõigest villand? On sul mõnikord hirm, et kõik läheb kuradile, kui sa ise ei hakka vastu rabelema?

Once, at one of the very rare and savory moments when my own teammates grudgingly allowed me to take the ball around one of the ends, Seymour, playing for the opposite side, disconcerted me by looking...

One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!

People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

Presently, some sort of fish was served to me on a plate with a small but noticeable trace of coagulated catsup along the border. Mme. Yoshoto asked me, in English--and her accent was unexpectedly cha...

Quelli che mi lasciano proprio senza fiato sono i libri che quando li hai finiti di leggere e tutto quel che segue vorresti che l'autore fosse tuo amico per la pelle e poterlo chiamare al telefono tut...

Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.

She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived, for life, of any understanding or taste for the main current of po...