People always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he 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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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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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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