Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGERIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGERWhy’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
J. D. SALINGERHe 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.
J. D. SALINGERYou’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SALINGERWe don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGERAll morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
J. D. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERI have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGERI don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SALINGERI don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGERIf a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SALINGERYou 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.
J. D. SALINGER