How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGERBut it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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’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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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People never notice anything.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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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 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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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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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