If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGERMake sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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 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.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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