The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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 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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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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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 could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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