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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.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
People always clap for the wrong reasons.
Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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.
