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
designed environment fall falling hear himself hit horrible keeps looking man men permitted riding special supply time
This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with.
sense-of-humor said
He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
kings stills ifs
Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row.
holy-ground pieces littles
Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong?
ruins
The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding
swear-to-god terrible madmen
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
fats
There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.
funny memorable missing
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
exclamation-points paradise observation
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
nice rain world
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.
nice memorable thinking
What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
nice excited holden-caulfield
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
accomplished talkers please
... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.
woods way hell
If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.