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
cities whole
She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.
men enormous-quantities style
Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this "French-inhale" style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed.
telescopes one-of-those-days ends
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
reading book writing
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
boys college men
Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.
secret christ fats
There isn't anyone anywhere who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.
fats
Do it for the fat lady!
success boys games
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
strong stuff
oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
thinking feelings trouble
That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.
crazy holden catching
I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
girl sexy knows
You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.
winter ducks
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
artist hunger distraction
I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.