We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGERSometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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I 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.
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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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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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