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.
J. D. SALINGERDid 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 don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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People never notice anything.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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