Quote

Do it for the fat lady!

J. D. Salinger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. D. Salinger
Age: 91 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
Author
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jerome David Salinger
Jerome Salinger
Lady
Fats

More quotes by J. D. Salinger

Image
I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J. D. Salinger
Image
You know, I'm the only one in this family who has no problems, . . . And you know why? Because any time I'm feeling blue, or puzzled , what I do, I just invite a few people to come visit me in the bathroom, and--well, we iron things out together, that's all.
J. D. Salinger
Image
We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
J. D. Salinger
Image
I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
J. D. Salinger
Image
If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.
J. D. Salinger
Image
Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
J. D. Salinger
Image
I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. Salinger
Image
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
J. D. Salinger
Image
Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. Salinger
Image
Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
J. D. Salinger
Image
That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any.
J. D. Salinger
Image
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
Image
Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.
J. D. Salinger
Image
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J. D. Salinger
Image
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
J. D. Salinger
Image
She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.
J. D. Salinger
Image
Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.
J. D. Salinger
Image
If you sat around there long enough and heard all the phonies applauding and all, you got to hate everybody in the world, I swear you did.
J. D. Salinger
Image
Sensitive. That killed me. That guy Morrow was about as sensitive as a toilet seat.
J. D. Salinger
Image
I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.
J. D. Salinger