Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SALINGERYou think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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 mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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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 not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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