I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERI don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
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. SALINGERPeople are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERIt’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGERI’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGERWe don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGERI can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGERThe 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.
J. D. SALINGERI told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGERSentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGERThe 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.
J. D. SALINGERThe more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
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