Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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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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And 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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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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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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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