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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.
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.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
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.
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 more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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?
