You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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People never notice anything.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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