Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERI’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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People never notice anything.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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