I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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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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 was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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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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