693 Quotes by J.D. 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.

Every time you mention some guy that’s strictly a bastard – very mean, or very conceited and all – and when you mention it to the girl, she’ll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn’t keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion.

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies. Don’t even mention them to me.

This fall I think you’re riding for – it’s a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn’t supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.

Almost every damn school in the world gets out earlier for Christmas break than the school I go to.

People always think something’s all true.

There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you’re with some girl that really knocks you out.