I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGERI have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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 mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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