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
joy liquid
Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.
doe loving-something sentimentality
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
thinking ice imagination
His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them
glands existence existence-of-god
The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?
inspirational being-in-love inability-to-love
Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.
life hair hands
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
rose said fats
If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
running inspiration kids
I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
numbers lightning ignored
I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
beautiful human-behavior offers
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.
mother insane
All mothers are slightly insane...
men trying strange
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
hate one-thing ifs
If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.
disappear chairs
Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear.