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.
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.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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