If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGERShe wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
-
-
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGER -
I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGER -
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGER -
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGER -
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.
J. D. SALINGER -
You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGER -
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.
J. D. SALINGER -
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGER -
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGER -
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. SALINGER -
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGER -
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.
J. D. SALINGER -
People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGER -
I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGER -
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGER