How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGERHow long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they 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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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 quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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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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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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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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