9 Quotes & Sayings By J D Salinger

J. D. Salinger was born in 1919 to a family of Eastern European immigrants. He spent his early childhood in Pennsylvania and New York, before the family moved to New Hampshire, where he attended Phillips Exeter Academy Read more

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, achieving the rank of captain before he received an honorable discharge in 1946. Following his discharge, Salinger worked as a magazine writer for Esquire magazine, Life magazine, and McCall's magazine.

He resigned from Time Inc., the parent company of McCall's, in 1955 because he objected to what he felt was an overly sexualized style of writing for women at the magazine. After leaving Time Inc., Salinger published three short stories in The New Yorker magazine between 1956 and 1958 that were later collected into his first book entitled Franny and Zooey (1961).

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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. J. D. Salinger
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. J. D. Salinger
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. J. D. Salinger
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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. J. D. Salinger
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. J. D. Salinger
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How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it? J. D. Salinger
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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. J. D. Salinger