I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
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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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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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People never notice anything.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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