It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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. SALINGERDid 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. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGERI hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGERThat’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGERNobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGERListen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGERI’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.
J. D. SALINGERWho 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?
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERYou 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.
J. D. SALINGERDo you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
J. D. SALINGERI’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
J. D. SALINGERI am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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