More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
