J. D. Salinger Littles Quotations

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.

The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.

Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever wrong?

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

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.

I'm one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.