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.
J. D. SALINGERI can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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Don’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.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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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 just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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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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