I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SALINGERYou think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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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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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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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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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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