Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
J. D. SALINGERIf 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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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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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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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