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The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism. — Pierre Salinger

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. — Pierre Salinger

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

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I mean you've seen it on the newsreels. I mean you've heard it on the radio and all, haven't you? — J.D. Salinger

I felt like giving old Jane a buzz — J.D. Salinger

Hemingway changed prose; so did Salinger and Nabokov. — David Lipsky

In a matter of only a few seconds, in fact, her eyes appeared to jettison everything that was dark and heavy and to glow with fan-club appreciation. — J.D. Salinger

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way. — J.D. Salinger

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. — J.D. Salinger

The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me. — J.D. Salinger

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head. — W.P. Kinsella

But fishing, as we know, in libraries or anywhere else, is a tricky business, with never a certainty of who's going to catch whom. — J.D. Salinger

Where do the ducks go in the winter? — J.D. Salinger

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

You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl. — J.D. Salinger

Oh ... It's too long a story. I never bore people I haven't know for at least a thousand years. — J.D. Salinger

Some days, being J.D. Salinger seems like a good idea. — Fred Smith

I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life. — J.D. Salinger

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) — J.D. Salinger

Wuttaya say."
"Bill's inside," Lucille said. "Get me a drink, willya, Harry?"
"Sure. — J.D. Salinger

Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said. — J.D. Salinger

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said. — J.D. Salinger

Give me an honest con man any day. — J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby' [ ... ] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [ ... ] — J.D. Salinger

I am not very introspective. — Pierre Salinger

That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you. — J.D. Salinger

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible. — Pierre Salinger

Are all your stars shining? — J.D. Salinger

It was a terrible school, no matter how you looked at it. — J.D. Salinger

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. — Pierre Salinger

Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody. — J.D. Salinger

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances ... I may be an orange peel. — J.D. Salinger

You beautiful little moron. — J.D. Salinger

He could hear me alright ... but he didn't answer me right away. He was the kind of guy that hates to answer you right away. — J.D. Salinger

I love you I love you I love you. Do you actually know I've only danced with you twice in eleven months? — J.D. Salinger

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one. — J.D. Salinger

You're a student - whether that idea appeals to you or not. You're in love with knowledge. — J.D. Salinger

Mrs. Glass watched him pull it on. She didn't stay for the tying of the lace, however.
Instead, she left the room. — J.D. Salinger

Indeed, all forms of human folly and beastiality touch a very symphathetic chord within our breasts! — J.D. Salinger

I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way. — Ethan Hawke

I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition. — J.D. Salinger

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. — J.D. Salinger

God, how I still love private readers. It's what we all used to be. — J.D. Salinger

He calls me Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948. — J.D. Salinger

Maybe there's a trapdoor under my chair, and I'll just disappear. — J.D. Salinger

[ ... ] don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? ... Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy. — J.D. Salinger

What do they do with those ducks, in the winter? — J.D. Salinger

I am not exactly wallowing in guilt at the moment, but guilt is guilt.It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. — J.D. Salinger

A woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right — J.D. Salinger

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

Just get sick sometime and go visit yourself, and you'll find out how tactless you are! — J.D. Salinger

This is of unspeakable importance. Please send any books on the structure of the human heart that I have not read — J.D. Salinger

He told me to be funny for the Fat Lady, once. — J.D. Salinger

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. — J.D. Salinger

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J.D. Salinger

American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President. — Pierre Salinger

Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast. — Rob Thomas

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. — J.D. Salinger

I am not constructed for continued absences; I have never claimed to be constructed for them. — J.D. Salinger

I said no, there would't be marvelous places to go to after I went to college and all. Open your ears. It'd be entirely different. — J.D. Salinger

They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father. They're nice and all-I'm not saying that-but they're also touchy as hell. — J.D. Salinger

The swimming stinks here because there are no waves even little waves. What good is it without any ways and you never get scared or turned all over — J.D. Salinger

I just hope that one day - preferably when we're both blind drunk - we can talk about it. — J.D. Salinger

He looked at me with his eyes shining - yes, shining. The boy's eyes could shine. — J.D. Salinger

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am. — J.D. Salinger

I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963. — Pierre Salinger

For poise, I picked up a stone and threw it at a tree. — J.D. Salinger

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid. — Pierre Salinger

Naturally, I never told him I thought he was a terrific whistler. I mean you don't just go up to somebody and say, 'You're a terrific whistler. — 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

A community of seriously hip observers is a scary and depressing thing. — J.D. Salinger

Am I very late?" she asked the Chief, smiling at him. She might just as well have asked if she was ugly. "No!" the Chief said. — J.D. Salinger

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield — J.D. Salinger

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. — J.D. Salinger

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' — J.D. Salinger

I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen — J.D. Salinger

Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word. — J.D. Salinger

Sleep tight, ya morons! — J.D. Salinger

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work. — J.D. Salinger

Life is a gift horse in my opinion. — J.D. Salinger

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't. — J.D. Salinger

I think he was pretty surprised to hear from me. I once called him a fat-assed phony. — J.D. Salinger

New York is terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. — J.D. Salinger

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will. — J.D. Salinger

You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. — J.D. Salinger

Dont's ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everyone- Holden Caulfield — J.D. Salinger

I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway. — J.D. Salinger

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman. — J.D. Salinger

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts. — J.D. Salinger

I like to chew candles. — J.D. Salinger

if somebody at least listens it not too bad — J.D. Salinger

Without the mind, sensuality quite has no organs to call her own! — J.D. Salinger

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. — J.D. Salinger

She was not one for emptying her face of expression. — J.D. Salinger

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos. — J.D. Salinger

With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network. — Jonathan Alter

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, ... ,and he had very red hair. — J.D. Salinger

Let's just try to have a marvelous time this weekend. I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible. Especially me. I love you. — J.D. Salinger

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding. — J.D. Salinger

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide. — Pierre Salinger