More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, 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.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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.
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
