The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERKnow your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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