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J.D. Salinger Quotes | Quotes said by J.D. Salinger

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #1

    - Be', proprio così, -insistette. - Perché non ti sposi?
    Abbandonando la sua posizione, Zooey prese dalla tasca posteriore dei calzoni un fazzoletto piegato, [...] e disse: - Mi piace troppo viaggiare in treno. Quando sei sposato non puoi più sederti vicino l finestrino.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #2

    ... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #3

    Ah nerede o günler, gerçekten öldügüm zaman, söyle akli basinda biri çikip beni denize filan ativerse, ne iyi olurdu. Ne yaparlarsa yapsinlar da, beni lanet bir mezara tikmasinlar. Pazar günleri millet gelip karninizin üstüne bir sürü çiçek filan koyacak, daha bir sürü zirvalik. Öldükten sonra çiçegi kim ne yapsin?

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #4

    All mothers are slightly insane.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #5

    All these angels start coming out of the boxes and everywhere, guys carrying crucifixes and stuff all over the place, and the whole bunch of them - thousands of them - singing “Come All Ye Faithful” like mad. Big deal. It’s supposed to be religious as hell, I know, and very pretty and all, but I can’t see anything religious or pretty, for God’s sake, about a bunch of actors carrying crucifixes all over the stage. When they all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell they could hardly wait to get a cigarette of something. I saw it with old Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all. I said old jesus probably would’ve puked if he could see it.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #6

    All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #7

    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 Quote #8

    And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #9

    Answer Professor Mandell’s letter when you get a chance and the patience. Ask him not to send me any more poetry books. I already have enough for 1 year anyway. I am quite sick of it anyway. A man walks along the beach and unfortunately gets hit in the head by a cocoanut. His head unfortunately cracks open in two halves. Then his wife comes along the beach singing a song and sees the 2 halves and recognizes them and cries heart breakingly. That is exactly where I am tired of poetry. Supposing the lady just picks up the 2 halves and shouts into them very angrily “Stop that!” Do not mention this when you answer his letter, however. It is quite controversial and Mrs. Mandell is a poet besides.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #10

    Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #11

    Basketbol takimindakiler birbirlerini tutuyor, Katolikler birbirlerini tutuyor, lanet entellektüeller birbirlerini tutuyor, Ayin Kitabi Kulübüne üye olan herifler bile birbirlerini tutuyor.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #12

    Bir kitabi okuyup bitirdiginiz zaman, bunu yazan keske çok yakin bir arkadasim olaydi da, canim her istediginde onu telefonla arayip konusabilseydim diyorsaniz, o kitap bence gerçekten iyidir.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #13

    Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and everybody went over and stood right under the roof of the carrousel, so they wouldn't get soaked to the skin or anything, but I stuck around on the bench for quite a while. I got pretty soaking wet, especially my neck and my pants. My hunting hat really gave me quite a lot of protection, in a way; but I got soaked anyway. I didn't care, though. I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #14

    Bu iki rahibenin bana Katolik olup olmadigimi sormadiklarina bu nedenle memnun olmustum. Sorsalardi, konusmamiz berbat olmazdi, ama ben de herhalde farkli davranirdim.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #15

    But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #16

    But while I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'fuck you' on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they'd wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them— all cockeyed naturally— what it meant, and how they'd all think about it and maybe even worry about it for a couple of days. I kept wanting to kill whoever'd written it.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #17

    Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #18

    Çocuk müthisti. Kaldirimda yürümüyordu, ama kaldirimin hemen dibinden, dümdüz bir çizgide yürüyormus gibi yapiyordu, çogu çocuklar gibi ve durmadan, Yakalarsa birini biri, çavdarlar arasinda, sarkisini söylüyordu. Güzel bir sesi vardi. Üstelik, sarkiyi felaket iyi söylüyordu. Arabalar yanindan vizir vizir geçiyor, frenler cayir cayir ötüyor o kaldirimin dibinden yürüyor, Yakalarsa birini biri, çavdarlar arasinda, sarkisini söylüyordu. Öyle hosuma gitti ki. Artik pek fazla moral bozuklugu hissetmiyordum.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #19

    Derdi ki, dünyadaki evli erkeklerin yarisi homoymus, ama kendileri bile öyle olduklarini bilmezlermis. Eger egiliminiz varsa, bir gece içinde homo olabilirmissiniz. Felaket korkuturdu bizi. Homo olacakmiyim acaba diye dertlenir dururdum.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #20

    Figyeld meg, vannak ilyenek; vörösre bogik a szemüket a moziban valami gennyes marhaságon, és tízbol kilenc a szíve mélyén aljas barom.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #21

    Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them... You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #22

    Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #23

    Girls. You never know what they’re going to think.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #24

    Give me an honest con man any day.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #25

    God almighty, Franny, he said. If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one. Keep him in mind if you say it, and him only, and him as he was and not as you'd like him to have been.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #26

    God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #27

    God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #28

    Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #29

    He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were.

  • J.D. Salinger Quote #30

    He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

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