If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.
It’s history. It’s poetry. - J. D. Salinger
It’s history. It’s poetry.
- J. D. Salinger
All morons hate it when you call them a moron. - J. D. Salinger
All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly - J. D. Salinger
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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. - 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.
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce th… - J. D. Salinger
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce th…
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do. - J. D. Salinger
Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human - J. D. Salinger
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. - J. D. Salinger
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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