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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
J. D. SALINGER, "Seymour: An Introduction"
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER, The Catcher in the Rye
Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
J. D. SALINGER, "Seymour: An Introduction"
Without the mind, sensuality quite has no organs to call her own!
J. D. SALINGER, "Hapworth 16, 1924"
All we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.
J. D. SALINGER, "Seymour: An Introduction"
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J. D. SALINGER, The Catcher in the Rye
I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
J. D. SALINGER, The Catcher in the Rye
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
J. D. SALINGER, The Catcher in the Rye
I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
J. D. SALINGER, Franny and Zooey
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
J. D. SALINGER, Franny and Zooey
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