Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J. D. SALINGERSentimentality is loving something more than God does.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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