The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGERBut it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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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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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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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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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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 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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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