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“Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no sense of humor.” (Nine Stories Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“I mean it’s very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you’re a freak if you try to.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“I walked down the long, wet cobblestone hill into town. I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn’t.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“If I were God, I certainly wouldn’t want people to love me sentimentally. It’s too unreliable.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I am willing to stay in the dark.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.” (Nine Stories Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
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
Nine Stories
“The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It’s not so good, that way.” (Nine Stories Quotes)
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don’t use logic when I do it. Logic’s the first thing you have to get rid of.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
“You know what she said? She says nobody gets a nervous breakdown just from the war and all. She says you probably were unstable like, your whole goddam life.”
J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories
