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.
J. D. SALINGERAlways, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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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 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 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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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