I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGERA 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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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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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I 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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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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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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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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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