Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERMake sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERDo 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.
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERPoets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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.
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. 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. SALINGERListen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGERI can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGERSentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGERSleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERShe wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
J. D. SALINGERI have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGERThat’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGER