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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.

J. D. Salinger

Children, My Best Friend, Facts

Sex is something I really don't understand too hot.

J. D. Salinger

Sex, Hot, Horsing Around

'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 9

If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

J. D. Salinger

Rose, Said, Fats

j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

Mean, Talking, Helping

J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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

Men, Trying, Strange

J. D. Salinger (2016). “J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.32, Melville House

But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.

J. D. Salinger

Doctors, Hair, Cells

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

Truth, Childhood, Parent

'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 1