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.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do 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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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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