I mean if thousands of little kids are running and they do not look where they are going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I do all day, I just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but this is the only thing that I really like to do!

— J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger Quotes

Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

— J.D. Salinger

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.

— 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

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She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.

— J.D. Salinger

I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.

— J.D. Salinger

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

— J.D. Salinger

If you weren’t around, I’d probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You’re the only reason I’m around, practically.

— J.D. Salinger

I know. I’m very hard to talk to. I realize that.

— J.D. Salinger

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

— J.D. Salinger

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

People never think anything is anything really. I’m getting goddam sick of it.

— J.D. Salinger

I was surrounded by jerks. I’m not kidding.

— J.D. Salinger

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don’t know what to do with their invisible gifts.

— J.D. Salinger

God, I wish you could have been there.

— J.D. Salinger

Some people you shouldn’t kid, even if they deserve it.

— J.D. Salinger

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

But you can’t always tell – with somebody’s mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

— J.D. Salinger

Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right – I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.

— J.D. Salinger

They didn’t act like people and they didn’t act like actors. It’s hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

— J.D. Salinger

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

— J.D. Salinger

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