J. D. Salinger Quotes About Literature
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How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
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People never believe you.
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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.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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.
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I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.
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I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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