145 Most Famous Quotes By J. D. Salinger, The Author Of The Catcher In The Rye
JD Salinger is best remembered as the author of the bestselling novel, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’. A tale of an adolescent boy Holden Caulfield, who loses his innocence and becomes alienated, ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ remains one of the most widely read and controversial novels till date, selling about 250,000 copies every year. The book singularly vaulted Salinger to the peak of his literary career. Though the book brought Salinger much fame and recognition, it also put him in limelight and gained him public attention, a fact that he despised as he was a private man. Though JD Salinger did not pen much work in lifetime, just a handful collection of short stories, and novellas, he became one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century. His writing style was unique, as he incorporated interior monologue, letters, and extended telephone calls, dialogue in his works to establish a connection between his characters and his readers. Just as popular is Salinger’s line of work including novels, novellas and short stories same are his quotes that give an insight into life and living. Sneak peek into this section and get enthused by some of the best known quotes by Salinger.
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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.
I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
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.
Mothers are all slightly insane.
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
People are always ruining things for you.
When you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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.
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
People never notice anything.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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.
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.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
