It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true. J. D. Salinger More Quotes by J. D. Salinger More Quotes From J. D. Salinger Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. J. D. Salinger records trouble men I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window. J. D. Salinger holden-caulfield phony window Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person. Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth. J. D. Salinger girl expression air Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to smoke in this "French-inhale" style. Very probably, it was not part of the sofa vaudeville of a showoff but, rather, the private, exposed achievement of a young man who, at one time or another, might have tried shaving himself left-handed. J. D. Salinger enormous-quantities style men You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it. J. D. Salinger reading writing book Do it for the fat lady! J. D. Salinger fats You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact. J. D. Salinger becoming chance men You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. J. D. Salinger eye heart mean Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid. J. D. Salinger liquid joy It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques. J. D. Salinger girl football sex It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all. J. D. Salinger crazy mother fun I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters. J. D. Salinger adam-and-eve apples bunch I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me. J. D. Salinger not-afraid scare opposites Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' J. D. Salinger hate secret people But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have J. D. Salinger pain earth doe Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact. J. D. Salinger pain girl sex Sentimentality is loving something more than God does. J. D. Salinger loving-something sentimentality doe I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't. J. D. Salinger ignored lightning numbers 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 childhood parent truth There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out. J. D. Salinger drunk girl long
