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More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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?
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.
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.
