People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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People never notice anything.
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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