I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGER
J. D. SALINGER
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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?
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger
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