All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I 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.
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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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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.
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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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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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