I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Did 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?
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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People never notice anything.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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