There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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 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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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 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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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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