People are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERI’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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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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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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