More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
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.
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.
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.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
