I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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