I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERI was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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. SALINGERA confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
J. D. SALINGERWe don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGERThe mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
J. D. SALINGERThat’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGERI mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
J. D. SALINGERIt’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGERAlways, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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. SALINGERI am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGERCertain 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. SALINGERAll morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGERI just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGERHow long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGERI hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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