People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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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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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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 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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear 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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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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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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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