The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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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 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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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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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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