J. D. Salinger on Life
Browse 7 quotations attributed to J. D. Salinger, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to J. D. Salinger and filed under "life" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to J. D. Salinger, entry #181309: "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. - Mr. Spencer"
Attributed to J. D. Salinger, entry #17891: "The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
7 Quotes by J. D. Salinger on Life
"Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. - Mr. Spencer"
"The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
"He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor."
"Dead Caulfields. The early life and work of J.D. Salinger"
"For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world — not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things — work out rather beautifully."
"Life is a gift horse in my opinion."
"You raved and you bitched when you came home about the stupidity of audiences. The goddam 'unskilled laughter' coming from the fifth row. And that's right, that's right — God knows it's depressing. I'm not saying it isn't. But that's none of your business, really. That's none of your business, Franny. An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."