Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGERI can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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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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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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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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