D. Salinger
D. Salinger
happiness smart make-you-happy
I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
funny memorable missing
Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
stupid mean thinking
I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.
weather emotion poet
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
girl giving looks
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
running holden felt
I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
sun sunny said
Why's it so sunny?" she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. "I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy," he said.
exclamation-points paradise observation
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
choices poet materials
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
ears written-word unwritten
I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.
fun stuff sometimes
It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
horse car literature
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
running gratitude children
If there is an amateur reader still left in the world—or anybody who just reads and runs—I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
coffee mean annoying
That's something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee's all ready and it isn't.