Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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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 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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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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