That’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. SALINGERKnow your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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People never notice anything.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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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 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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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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