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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. Salinger
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J. D. Salinger
Age: 91 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
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Jerome David Salinger
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I know he's dead! Don't you think I know that? I can still like him, though, can't I? Just because somebody's dead, you don't just stop liking them, for God's sake--especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that're alive and all.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
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They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.
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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
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Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
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In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.
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I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
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Girls. You never know what they're going to think.
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.
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For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to study psychoanalysis in the first place.
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It's so silly. All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands of times. Just because they don't remember, it doesn't mean they haven't done it.
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Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.
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After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.
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She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
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Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.
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Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
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Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.
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probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns into a girl. how well or how badly the man actually knew the girl doesn’t necessarily affect the transformation. she was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that
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It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
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