J. D. Salinger Quotes on Emotion

5 quotes

  1. 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.

  2. 'I don't know. Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions'.

  3. For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

  4. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her.

  5. I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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