J.D. Salinger Quotes

You’ve got a goddamn bug today—you know that? What the hell’s the matter with you anyway? Franny quickly tipped her cigarette ash, then brought the ashtray an inch closer to her side of the table. I’m...

Zooey was in dreamy top form. The announcer had them off on the subject of housing developments, and the little Burke girl said she hated houses that all look alike-meaning a long row of identical 'de...

Възпроизведох тази приказка не само защото винаги съм готов да препоръчам на родителите и на по-големите братя на десетмесечни пеленачета да им четат за умиряване хубава проза, но и по съвсем друга пр...

Това е един от малко известните епизоди в биографията ми, но от мен да мине, ще го разкажа. На около девет години нечувано ме блазнеше мисълта, че съм най-бързият бегач в света. Това, нека добавя, е е...

Фийби не каза дума, но ме слушаше. Познавах по тила ѝ, че ме слуша. Винаги слуша, когато ѝ говориш. И най-интересното е, че почти винаги разбира за какво ѝ говориш. Наистина разбира. Продължих да разп...

واخذت اراقب الفتيات، ........................................كان مشهداً لطيفاً إن كنت تعرف ما أعنيه. وكان المشهد من الناحية الأخرى مثيرا للضيق لأنك سوف تتساءل: ماذا سوف يحدث لهن في المستقبل بحق الجحيم...

واقعیت همیشه خیلی دیر خودش را نشان می دهد. غریب ترین تفاوت میان خوشبختی و شادی این است که خوشبختی جامد است و شادی مایع. شادی من تا صبح ِ روز بعد، که آقای یوشوتو با پاکت های دو دانشجوی جدید سر میز من س...

— Само не ми се усмихвай — каза Зуи с равен глас и мигом се оттегли. — Сиймор все ми се усмихваше. Тая къща е тъпкана с веселяци.Just don't smile at me, please, Zooey said, evenly, and walked out of t...

O parvalhão reparou nela e aproximou-se para a cumprimentar. Haviam de ouvir a maneira como se cumprimentaram. Haviam de pensar que não se viam há vinte anos. Haviam de pensar que tomavam banho na mes...

But I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one. I think that if he titters at male writers who wear invisi...

Her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good-listenership had been fully served.

My atoms, moreover, are arranged to make me constitutionally inclined to believe that where there's smoke there's usually strawberry Jello, seldom fire...

My life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I pick that verb with care - of the Zen experience has been a by-result of following m...

<...> However I have thought of you frequently and of the extremely pleasant afternoon we spent in each other's company on April 30, 1944 between 3:45 and 4:15 P. M. in case it slipped your mind.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and...

An instant later, a silk hat materialised in the air beside me, considerably down and to the left, and my special, only technically unassigned cohort grinned up at me - for a moment, I rather thought...

At least I'm still in love with Yorick's skull. At least I always have time enough to stay in love with Yorick's skull. I want an honorable goddam skull when I'm dead, buddy. I hanker after an honorab...

Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them. Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with...

But you're wrong about that hating business. I mean about hating football players and all. You really are. I don't hate too many guys. What I may do, I may hate them for a little while, like this guy...