You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGERIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGERWe don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGERI 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. 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’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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. SALINGERI’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
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. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERI just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGERYou think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
J. D. SALINGERAlways, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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.
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