If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
J. D. SALINGERIf you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGERI have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
J. D. SALINGERYou never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGERThe worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGERIt’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGERMake sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERI have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGERI could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGERKnow your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGERThere are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
J. D. SALINGERWe don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGERWho 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?
J. D. SALINGER