You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I 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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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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 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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