Salinger Teddy Quotes

#1. Nothing in the voice of the cicada intimates how soon it will die.

J.D. Salinger

#2. If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable.

J.D. Salinger

#3. I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

J.D. Salinger

#4. Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.

Clinton Anderson

#5. I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Liverpool will be the most profitable investment I've ever made,

Tom Hicks

#7. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

J.D. Salinger

#8. You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

J.D. Salinger

#9. Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

J.G. Ballard

#10. Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

Laurence Olivier

#11. After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances ... I may be an orange peel.

J.D. Salinger

#12. He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream
clearly coming from a small, female child. It was highly acoustical, as though it were reverberating within four tiled walls.

J.D. Salinger

#13. I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.

J.D. Salinger

#14. Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you're going downhill.

Molly Harper

#15. I would never say that GOD did not do anything I wished for he made it come true.

Nadair Desmar