Jerome Salinger quotes was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye Born: 01/01/1919 Died: 01/28/2010 Country: usa

• An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. (Jerome Salinger)
• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. (Jerome Salinger)
• How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it? (Jerome Salinger)
• I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (Jerome Salinger)
• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (Jerome Salinger)
• I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. (Jerome Salinger)
• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. (Jerome Salinger)
• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. (Jerome Salinger)
• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. (Jerome Salinger)
• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. (Jerome Salinger)
• It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. (Jerome Salinger)
• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. (Jerome Salinger)
• Mothers are all slightly insane. (Jerome Salinger)
• People never believe you. (Jerome Salinger)
• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. (Jerome Salinger)
• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. (Jerome Salinger)

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