I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGERI 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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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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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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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean 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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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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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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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