That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGERIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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 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.
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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 just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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