J. D. Salinger Quotes

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

Love, Time, Down

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger

Happiness, Happy, Paranoid

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. Salinger

Respect, God, Wish

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

Else, Artist, Anyone

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. Salinger

Hate, Call, Moron

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger

Artist, Unhappy, Worst

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. Salinger

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. Salinger

Courage, Sick, Nobody

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. Salinger

Girl, She, Nobody

Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. Salinger

Mothers, Insane, Slightly

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. Salinger

Life, Liar, Terrific

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. Salinger

Read, Quite, Illiterate

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. Salinger

Long, Enough, Touch

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
J. D. Salinger

God, Human, Old

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. Salinger

Hard, Roommates, Suitcases

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. Salinger

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
J. D. Salinger

Movies, Heart, Mean

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. Salinger

Money, Hell, Making

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
J. D. Salinger

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
J. D. Salinger

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
J. D. Salinger

Stupid, Admit, Hardly

People never believe you.
J. D. Salinger

People never notice anything.
J. D. Salinger

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
J. D. Salinger

Good, Hard, Mean

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 1, 1919

Died: January 27, 2010

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