More Quotes by J. D. Salinger
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.
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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.
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?
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
