J. D. Salinger Quotes

Give me an honest con man any day.

I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.

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

You still can't love a Jesus as much as you'd like to who did and said a couple of things he was at least reported to have said or done — and you know it. You're constitutionally unable to love or understand any son of God who throws tables around. And you're constitutionally unable to love or understand any son of God who says a human being, any human being — even a Professor Tupper — is more valuable to God than any soft, helpless Easter chick.

Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that — although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.

But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.

I was not only twenty-three, but a conspicuously retarded twenty-three.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. 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.

Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.

Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.

I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.

He always had to know who was going. I swear, if that guy was shipwrecked somewhere, and you rescued him in the god damn boat, he'd want to know who the guy that was rowing it before he'd even get in.

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances. I may be an orange peel.