J.D. Salinger Quotes

هیچ وقت به هیشکی چیزی نگو. اگه بگی دلت برا همه تنگ می شه.

— Ще влизаш ли във водата? — попита Сибил.— Трябва да помисля. Имай предвид, Сибил, че много сериозно обмислям този въпрос.

Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddamn hand dies on you

All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.

But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than m...

Did you see more glass?

Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm choosy about what I want - in this case, enlightenment or p...

God, could that dopey girl dance. Buddy Singer and his stinking band was playing 'Just One of Those Things' and even they couldn't ruin it entirely. It's a swell song. I didn't try any trick stuff whi...

God, how I hate it when somebody yells Good luck! at me when I'm leaving somewhere. It's depressing.

He could hear me alright...but he didn't answer me right away. He was the kind of guy that hates to answer you right away.

He didn't disagree with me, but he seemed to feel that I have a perfection complex of some kind. Much talk from him, and quite intelligent, on the virtues of living the imperfect life, of accepting on...

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.

I don't want to scare you, he said, but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way all Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that...

I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.

I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go...

I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

I privately say to you old friend (unto you, really, I'm afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parenthesis: (((( )))). I suppose, most unflorally, I truly mean th...

I privately say to you, old friend... please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).