American - Novelist | January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
J. D. Salinger
WorkMyselfManDoingTryingKind
How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
MotivationalYouKnowGoingHow
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
ArtPerfectionArtistKindOwnOnly
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
HappinessI AmHappyPeopleMeKind
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
LifeGodUglyPeopleWorldHim
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.
HeartEyesYouMoviesMeanOver
Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
PeopleBetterRoommatesHardYour
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
HateYouCallMoronThemMorons
What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
FunnyFriendBestMeBookReading
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
GodRespectPeopleSickWishMeet
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
LoveMyselfMy OwnWriteOwnJust
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
GirlYouLateLooksNobodyDamn
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