J. D. Salinger Quotes about Lying

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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

J. D. Salinger

Lying, Down And, Sometimes

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

I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.

J. D. Salinger

Crazy, Lying, Swear To God

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

Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

J. D. Salinger

Lying, Sunshine, Special

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

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

J. D. Salinger

Memories, Lying, People

"Seymour: An Introduction (1959)". "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of glibly undaunted and usually specious evaluations that any legitimate art object is. I think it just remains to be said that any one of a hundred everyday menaces — a car accident, a head cold, a lie before breakfast — could have disfigured or coarsened his bounteous good looks in a day or a second.

J. D. Salinger

Beautiful, Art, Lying