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Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.


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J.D. SALINGER You’d better get busy, though, buddy. The goddam sands run out on you every time
You turn ar...
J.D. SALINGER Why's it so sunny?" she repeated.
Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever...
J.D. SALINGER Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?'
Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to...
J.D. SALINGER Listen, I don't care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, Fatty, but don't tell me I'm no...
J.D. SALINGER My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minu...
J.D. SALINGER Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.
J.D. SALINGER People never notice anything.
J.D. SALINGER It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yell...
J.D. SALINGER Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J.D. SALINGER That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't ...
J.D. SALINGER Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sink...
J.D. GREEAR It’s history. It’s poetry.
J.D. SALINGER Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.
J.D. SALINGER I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.
J.D. SALINGER The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be...
J.D. SALINGER I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.
J.D. SALINGER I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J.D. SALINGER Mothers are all slightly insane.
J.D. SALINGER Today people look at me, at my job and my Ivy League credentials, and assume that I’m some sort of...
J.D. VANCE Barack Obama strikes at the heart of our deepest insecurities. He is a good father while many of us ...
J.D. VANCE An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone e...
J.D. SALINGER After all, I wasn’t even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because bein...
J.D. BREWER The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we coul...
J.D. GREEAR I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something.
J.D. SALINGER It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER I also say "Boy" a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite youn...
J.D. SALINGER Boy, it began to rain like a bastard. In buckets, I swear to God. All the parents and mothers and ev...
J.D. SALINGER People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.
J.D. SALINGER Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and...
J.D. SALINGER D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know w...
J.D. SALINGER That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. SALINGER I don’t give a damn, except that I get bored sometimes when people tell me to act my age. Sometime...
J.D. SALINGER I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. An...
J.D. SALINGER As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his pri...
J.D. SALINGER Rudford lay on his back in the grass and watched great cotton clouds slip through the sky. Peculiarl...
J.D. SALINGER