J D Salinger Quotes (11 quotations)
1. Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody. - J D Salinger
2. I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J D Salinger
3. I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J D Salinger
4. I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight. - J D Salinger
5. I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty...you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - J D Salinger
6. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. - J D Salinger
7. I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him. - J D Salinger
8. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. - J D Salinger
9. It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is so much fun sometimes. - J D Salinger
10. Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. - J D Salinger
11. 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
2. I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J D Salinger
3. I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J D Salinger
4. I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight. - J D Salinger
5. I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty...you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - J D Salinger
6. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. - J D Salinger
7. I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him. - J D Salinger
8. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. - J D Salinger
9. It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is so much fun sometimes. - J D Salinger
10. Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. - J D Salinger
11. 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
