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J. D. Salinger on Mother's Day

1919–2010 United States

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I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)

How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back "What?"

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963)

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

Nine Stories (1953)

You still can't love a Jesus as much as you'd like to who did and said a couple of things he was at least reported to have said or done — and you know it.

Franny and Zooey (1961)

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

Interview in The Baton Rouge Advocate (1980)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. D. Salinger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.