I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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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