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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
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
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
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
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
Give me an honest con man any day.
— J.D. Salinger
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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
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
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
He calls me Miss Spiritual Tramp of 1948.
— J.D. Salinger
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[ ... ] 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
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
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
I just hope that one day - preferably when we're both blind drunk - we can talk about it.
— 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
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
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
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
If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
— 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
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
