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
life happiness happy
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
important made
I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.
expression faces
She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
people
People never notice anything.
god children drinking
I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.
friendship alive want
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
hands worried holden
You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
running gratitude children
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
lying sunshine special
Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
worry want fool
When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go.
fun stuff sometimes
It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
school crooks expensive
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
clever weather poet
Poets are always taking the weather so personally.
literature illiterate
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.