The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERHe 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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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People never notice anything.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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