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J. D. Salinger, nom de plume de Jerome David Salinger né le 1er janvier 1919 à New York et mort le 27 janvier 2010 dans le New Hampshire aux États-Unis, est un écrivain américain.

Il commence à se faire connaître en 1948 avec des nouvelles parues dans le New Yorker, mais il est surtout célèbre pour son roman L'Attrape-cœurs . Traitant de l’adolescence et du passage à l’âge adulte, ce roman, devenu un classique du genre, connaît une popularité importante depuis sa publication en 1951. L’un des thèmes majeurs de Salinger est l'adolescence avec ses perturbations et son désenchantement devant la perte irrémédiable de l'innocence de l'enfance.

Salinger est connu aussi pour sa vie de reclus. Il n'a fait aucune apparition publique ni accordé un seul entretien ou publié un seul écrit durant quarante ans.

✵ 1. janvier 1919 – 27. janvier 2010
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J. D. Salinger: 89 citations1 J'aime

J. D. Salinger citations célèbres

J. D. Salinger: Citations en anglais

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

Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)

“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.”

Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“What is it but a low form of prayer when he or Les or anybody else God-damns everything? I can't believe God recognizes any form of blasphemy. It's a prissy word invented by the clergy.”

Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”

Jerome David Salinger livre L'Attrape-cœurs

Mr. Spencer
Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2

“Everybody's a nun.”

Jerome David Salinger livre Nine Stories

Nine Stories (1953), De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952)

“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession.”

Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

“Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve.”

Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected — never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility for the first time in my life.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)

“Could you try not aiming so much?" he asked me, still standing there. "If you hit him when you aim, it'll just be luck.”

Jerome David Salinger livre Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

He was speaking, communicating, and yet not breaking the spell. I then broke it. Quite deliberately. "How can it be luck if I aim?" I said back to him, not loud (despite the italics) but with rather more irritation in my voice than I was actually feeling. He didn't say anything for a moment but simply stood balanced on the curb, looking at me, I knew imperfectly, with love. "Because it will be," he said. "You'll be glad if you hit his marble — Ira's marble — won't you? Won't you be glad? And if you're glad when you hit somebody's marble, then you sort of secretly didn't expect too much to do it. So there'd have to be some luck in it, there'd have to be slightly quite a lot of accident in it."
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)

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