Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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The 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.
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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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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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