I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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Did 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?
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Sometimes 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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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People never notice anything.
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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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