I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window. J. D. Salinger More Quotes by J. D. Salinger More Quotes From J. D. Salinger 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 confused girl love I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it. J. D. Salinger good-luck sound thinking But don't tell me I'm not sensitive to beauty. That's my Achilles' heel, and don't you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I'm limp, by God. J. D. Salinger sunset forget beautiful If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings--excuse the expression. Like Manlius and Esposito and all those poor men. J. D. Salinger beautiful men mean Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. J. D. Salinger confused behavior firsts How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said. J. D. Salinger enough knows said That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think. J. D. Salinger trouble feelings thinking Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up. J. D. Salinger riding tired matter I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts. J. D. Salinger invisible grateful feels The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing. J. D. Salinger exaggeration-is wall book For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands. J. D. Salinger phones joy hands He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were. J. D. Salinger nazi army said His eldest sister (who modestly prefers to be identified here as a Tuckahoe homemaker) has asked me to describe him as looking like 'the blue-eyed Jewish-Irish Mohican scout who died in your arms at the roulette table at Monte Carlo. J. D. Salinger roulette tables blue How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire J. D. Salinger names desire memories You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes. J. D. Salinger likes-and-dislikes strong world 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 reason way Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. J. D. Salinger phrases sea islands However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience. J. D. Salinger loneliness artist suicide Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it. J. D. Salinger depressing boys mean I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood. J. D. Salinger sarcasm mood sarcastic
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