Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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People never notice anything.
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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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I 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.
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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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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Who 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?
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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A 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.
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