J. D. Salinger Quotes about Life

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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J. D. Salinger

Love, Life, Courage

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

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

J. D. Salinger

Life, Happiness, Happy

J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

J. D. Salinger

Life, Change, Glasses

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger, (Ch. 16), 1951.

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J. D. Salinger

Life, Hair, Hands