Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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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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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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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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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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