J. D. Salinger Quotes

“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:talking

“You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:talking thinking

“I just hope that one day—preferably when we're both blind drunk—we can talk about it.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:talking

“He hated it when you called a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:hate

“You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose. Try it sometime.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:peace

“I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:feeling

“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:sadness importance

“I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:sadness

“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:sadness

“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:boredom hurting

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