Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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.
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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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People never notice anything.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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