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.
J. D. SALINGERThe 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 just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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People never notice anything.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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