That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGERThat’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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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 don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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