People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERAnd 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.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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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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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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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Do 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.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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