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.
J. D. SALINGERCertain 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.
J. D. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
J. D. SALINGERThere are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
J. D. SALINGERSleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERShe was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGERI don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERWe are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
J. D. SALINGERI have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGERMost stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGERIt 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.
J. D. SALINGERThe worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGERPoets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGERYou never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGERNobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
J. D. SALINGERI’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGER