I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
"Jerome David "J. D." Salinger" was an American literature/American writer who won acclaim early in life. He led a very private life for more than a half-century. He published his final original work in 1965 and gave his last interview in 1980.
Salinger was raised in Manhattan and began writing short stories while in secondary school. Several were published in Story (magazine)/Story magazine in the early 1940s before he began serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his later work. In 1951, his novel The Catcher in the Rye was an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel remains widely read and controversial, selling around 250,000 copies a year.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More J. D. Salinger on Wikipedia.I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phoney. I could puke every time I hear it.
It's really too bad a lot of crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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.
I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
I hope to hell that when I do die somebody has the sense to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetary. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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.
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