I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Quote by J D Salinger

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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's...

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's...

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I...

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I...

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it...

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it...

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is...

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is...

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain....

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain....

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even...

It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even...

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's...

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's...

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make...

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make...

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that...

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that...

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

People never believe you.

People never believe you.

People never notice anything.

People never notice anything.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his...

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his...

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies,...

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies,...

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?

How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?