J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salingerwas an American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 January 1919
CountryUnited States of America
clever weather poet
Poets are always taking the weather so personally.
friendship alive want
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.
watches ifs showing-off
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
beautiful confused mean
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
expression faces
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
want
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
world lucky phenomenal
You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
nice excited holden-caulfield
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
literature illiterate
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
laughter stupid mean
And 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.
might accusation
But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me.
nice mean world
There are nice things in the world - and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.
two yellow years
She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.
sex mind saws
In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.