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More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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.
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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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.
