Best J D Salinger Wisdom
- Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest… Been
- I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but… Anything Got
- I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why… Absolute
- There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Anyone
- I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy. All
- 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… Aging
- The catcher in the rye... that's all I really want to be... All
- Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no… All
- Did you see more glass? Funny
- Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies Any
- If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet. Closet
- When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only,… Bathroom
- In the first place, you’re way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself. First Place
- The connection was so bad, and I couldn’t talk at all during most of the call. How terrible it is when you say I love… All
- I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their… Arms
- She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity. Inspirational
- I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Certain
- Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. Is he ever… All
- Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly. Bed
- Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. Always Sticking
- Sometimes I see me dead in the rain. Dead
- It’s history. It’s poetry. Funny
- Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean.… Aisle
- She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light… Able
- Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) Anything Even
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