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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.
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.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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.
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.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human