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.
J. D. SALINGERThe more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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 quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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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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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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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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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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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 was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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 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.
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We 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.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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