Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
All Quotes by author - J. D. Salinger
" All morons hate it when you call them a moron. "
Hate
Call
You
" An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. "
Perfection
Artist
Art
" He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. "
World
God
Him
" How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it? "
Going
You
Motivational
" How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground. "
Ground
Touch
Man
" I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. "
Happy
People
Happiness
" I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. "
Old
God
Horse
" I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it. "
Know
Exactly
Mean
" If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. "
Late
Girl
You
" I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. "
Love
Myself
Own
" I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach. "
Reach
Book
Best
" I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work. "
Kind
Doing
Trying
" I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. "
Illiterate
Read
Lot
" I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect. "
Meet
God
Wish
" I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. "
Courage
Absolute
Sick
" It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. "
You
Funny
Anything
" Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. "
Your
Better
Hard
" It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. "
Very
Admit
Doing
" I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. "
Time
Fall
You
" Mothers are all slightly insane. "
Mom
Mothers
Slightly
" Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. "
Things
Poets
Weather
" There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. "
Peaceful
Privacy
Peace
" The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. "
Artist
You
Worst Thing
" They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. "
Hard
Explain
Good
" What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. "
Funny
Book
Best
" You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart. "
You
Mean
Movies
Check our other websites:
BookDark
MusicDark