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.
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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