J.D. Salinger
I just hope that one day—preferably when we’re both blind drunk—we can talk about it. — J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey. (Back Bay Books January 30, 2001) Originally published 1957.
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J.D. Salinger
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin. — J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. (Back Bay Books January 30, 2001) Originally published January 1st 1955.
J.D. Salinger
—and poetry, surely, is a crisis. — J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction. (Back Bay Books January 30, 2001) Originally published January 1st 1955.
J.D. Salinger
Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason. — J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction. (Back Bay Books January 30, 2001) Originally published 1955,
J.D. Salinger
I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway. — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye. (Back Bay Books; Reissue edition January 30, 2001) Originally published 1951.
J.D. Salinger
I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (Little, Brown & Co., 1951)
J.D. Salinger
One day a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of. ― J.D. Salinger
J.D. Salinger
Sometimes I see me dead in the rain. — J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey. (Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition, January 30, 1961)
J.D. Salinger
I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. — J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction. (Back Bay Books January 30, 2001) Originally published 1955,
J.D. Salinger
She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J.D. Salinger, from “A Girl I Knew,” Good Housekeeping: February 1948.
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