I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGERI’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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But 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 think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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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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