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 Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away. J. D. Salinger missing people thinking I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not. J. D. Salinger intelligent stupid thinking If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. J. D. Salinger ifs want people But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me. J. D. Salinger accusation might Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them. J. D. Salinger horse kids fall Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. J. D. Salinger games success boys I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though. J. D. Salinger beautiful It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world. J. D. Salinger nice rain world Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something? J. D. Salinger feds scared mean For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place. J. D. Salinger grace believe firsts Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. J. D. Salinger college men boys Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh. J. D. Salinger wells might laughing What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice. J. D. Salinger nice memorable thinking 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 weekend love-you mean God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be. J. D. Salinger used-to-be used reader Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all. J. D. Salinger missed-you lovely mean I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes. J. D. Salinger grapes foxes littles And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. J. D. Salinger grief running happiness A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. J. D. Salinger given pride littles I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know. J. D. Salinger hate football fall