It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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