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The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. — Pierre 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

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

Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one's sanity. — 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

There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time. — J.D. Salinger

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground. — 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

I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. — J.D. Salinger

It's history. It's poetry. — 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

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

It's the sort of absurd notion, though, that I wouldn't mind taking out for a good academic run someday. — J.D. Salinger

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

That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time. — J.D. Salinger

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. — J.D. Salinger

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

The mark of a mature man is not willing to die for a worthy cause, rather it's willing to live for one — J.D. Salinger

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. — 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

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? — J.D. Salinger

The only time I have ever seen my father cry in my whole life was the day he watched JFK's funeral procession on television. — Margaret A. Salinger

My mother's dead, and I have to live with her charming husband, and nobody in New York speaks French, and there aren't any chairs in your son's room. — J.D. Salinger

It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window. — J.D. Salinger

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. — J.D. Salinger

God, how I hate it when somebody yells "Good luck!" at me when I'm leaving somewhere. It's depressing. — J.D. Salinger

That's something that annoys the hell out of me- I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't — 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

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'll tell you a terrible secret - Are you listening to me? There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. — J.D. Salinger

Yes, I have an ulcer, for Chrissake. This is Kaliyuga, buddy, the Iron Age. Anybody over sixteen without an ulcer's a goddam spy. — J.D. Salinger

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies — J.D. Salinger

If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me. — J.D. Salinger

He was the kind of phony that have to give themselves room when they answer somebody's question — J.D. Salinger

I watched Kenneth's face like a writer. — J.D. Salinger

If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible. — J.D. Salinger

And I like his conceit. He's so conceited he's actually humble, the crazy bastard. — J.D. Salinger

Something happens, and the words get synchronized with the person's heartbeats, and then you're actually praying without ceasing ... — J.D. Salinger

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. — J.D. Salinger

Jesus, life has its share of honorable thrills if one but keeps one's eyes open! — J.D. Salinger

She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity. — J.D. Salinger

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to. — J.D. Salinger

The catcher in the rye ... that's all I really want to be ... — J.D. Salinger

It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out. — J.D. Salinger

I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I always act corny too. — J.D. Salinger

That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think. — J.D. Salinger

I never really knew anything about friendship before I was in the Army. Did you Vince?"
"Not a thing. It's the best thing there is. Just About. — J.D. Salinger

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in awhile. — J.D. Salinger

There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. — J.D. Salinger

If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. — J.D. Salinger

Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. — Pierre 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

My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking. — J.D. Salinger

It's boring to do that every two minutes. — 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

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

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it. — J.D. Salinger

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. — J.D. Salinger

It's full of phonies and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a golden Cadillac ... — J.D. Salinger

New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed. — J.D. Salinger

(He) looked directly into his own eyes, as though his eyes were neutral territory, a no man's land in a private war against narcissism. — J.D. Salinger

A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all. — J.D. Salinger

Oh, this happiness is strong stuff. It's marvelously liberating. — 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

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

That's one nice thing about carrousels, they always play the same songs. — J.D. Salinger

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

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

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

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

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