People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
("The Catcher in the Rye")
More Quotes from J.D. Salinger:
People always clap for the wrong reasons.J.D. Salinger
Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J.D. Salinger
I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all… I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye
J.D. Salinger
I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.
J.D. Salinger
Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation.
J.D. Salinger
There isn't a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and get drunk. Or unless you're with some girl that really knocks you out.
J.D. Salinger
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: People QuotesOf course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read.
Paul Muldoon
I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.
Lyle Lovett
From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.
John Greenleaf Whittier