J. D. Salinger Quotes

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  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

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Artist, Concern

• One of the reasons that I quit going to the theatre when I was about twenty was that I resented like hell filingout of the theatre because some playwright was forever slamming down his silly curtain.

  J. D. Salinger

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• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Poetry, surely, is a crisis, perhaps the only actionable one we can call our own.

  J. D. Salinger

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• For Esme-with Love and Squalor.

  J. D. Salinger

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• Never tell anyone anything. If you do you start missing everyone.

  J. D. Salinger

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• Sally said I was a sacrilegious atheist. I probably am. The thing that Jesus really would’ve liked would be the guy that plays the kettle drums in the orchestra.

  J. D. Salinger

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• The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they’ll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don’t like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they’ll say he’s conceited. Even smart girls do it.

  J. D. Salinger

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• Take most people, they’re crazy about cars… I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.

  J. D. Salinger

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• The trouble with me is, I always have to read that stuff by myself. If an actor reads it out, I hardly listen. I keep worrying about whether he’s going to do something phoney every minute.

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• He looked like the kind of guy that wouldn’t talk to you much unless he wanted something off you. He had a lousy personality.

  J. D. Salinger

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• What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

  J. D. Salinger

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• If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it.

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• I don’t know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn’t make you happy.

  J. D. Salinger

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  Tags in Good, Happiness

• And I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

  J. D. Salinger

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  Tags in Happiness

• I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

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  Tags in Happiness
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  All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

  J. D. Salinger

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Hate, Moron
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  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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Pretty, Girls, Time
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  Poets are always taking the weather so personally.

  J. D. Salinger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personally, Weather, Poetry

• It’s partly true, too, but it isn’t all true. People always think something’s all true.

  J. D. Salinger

  Topics in Truth

J. D. Salinger (48)

Birth:	1st January, 1919
Death:	27th January, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Jerome David "J.D." Salinger was born in New York City, New York, USA. He was an American writer who is known for his widely-read novel, The Catcher in the Rye. He studied at New York University, Ursinus College, and Columbia University. He wrote several short stories include: Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; and Seymour, and Three Early Stories.

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