More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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.
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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.
