More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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 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.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
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.
