J. D. Salinger Quotes

“My God, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.”

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

“You take somebody's mother, all they want to hear about is what a hotshot their son is.”

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

topic:pride

“if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:way

“The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.”

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

“It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.”

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

topic:sun

“Against my better judgment, I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young...”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:grief

“Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.”

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

topic:loss

“It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.”

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

topic:comfort

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:personality

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