I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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People never notice anything.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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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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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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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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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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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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