Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGERListen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGERAll morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGERI don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERI could happily lie down and die sometimes.
J. D. SALINGERIt’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
J. D. SALINGERMake sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
J. D. SALINGERWho 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?
J. D. SALINGERDid you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
J. D. SALINGERYou 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.
J. D. SALINGERThe 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.
J. D. SALINGERIf a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGER