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
sense-of-humor said
He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
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.
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.
numbers lightning ignored
I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
nice peaceful trouble
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
jerk
I was surrounded by jerks. I'm not kidding.
bleeding rooms ruins
Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.
converses
We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
depressing hurt people
It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!