J. D. Salinger Quotes

"when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

Lane was speaking now as someone does who has been monopolizing conversation for a good quarter of an hour or so and who believes he has just hit a stride where his voice can do absolutely no wrong.

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.

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

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly