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J. D. Salinger Quotes

J. D. Salinger quotes

American Novelist, Writer January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010

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I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell... J. D. Salinger
She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your... J. D. Salinger
Oh how nice!" the lady said. But not corny. She was just nice & all. "I must tell Ernest we met," she said. "May I ask your name, dear?" "Rudolf Schmidt," I told her. I didn't feel like giving her my whole life history. Rudolf Schmidt was the name of the janitor of our dorm. J. D. Salinger
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. J. D. Salinger
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible. J. D. Salinger
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 poetry that flows through things, all things. J. D. Salinger
He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why. J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger quote: "I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in..."
I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to. J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger quote: "Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was..."
Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no sense of humor. J. D. Salinger
For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place. J. D. Salinger
If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. About all I know is, I sort of miss everybody I told about.[...] It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger quote: "Life is a game. Life is a game that one plays according to rules."
Life is a game. Life is a game that one plays according to rules. J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger quote: "Life is a game that one plays according to the rules"
Life is a game that one plays according to the rules J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger quote: "He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense..."
He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger quote: "I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life."
I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life. J. D. Salinger

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