Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
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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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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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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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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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