Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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