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.
J. D. SALINGERDon’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.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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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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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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