{"author":"J.D. Salinger","author_id":"J.D.+Salinger","total_quotes":136,"quotes":[{"text":"Mothers are all slightly insane.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["motherhood"],"id":1059,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"I have a feeling that you're riding for some terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. 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 the bottom. He just keeps 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...","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["insightful","intuitive","perceptive"],"id":3075,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["bluffing","confusion"],"id":6585,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["childhood","psychology"],"id":13856,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement. ","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["confusion"],"id":15358,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["empathy"],"id":21765,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they’re always being perverty when I’m around.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["funny"],"id":25428,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"I'm not trying to tell you,' he said, 'that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with — which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end. And — most important—nine times out of ten they have more humility than the unscholarly thinker.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["education","humility","intellectual","knowledge","wisdom"],"id":38205,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["inspirational","romance"],"id":41340,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"},{"text":"We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.","author":"J.D. Salinger","tags":["conversation"],"id":44967,"author_id":"J.D.+Salinger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":136,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}