Where do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERAlways, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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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.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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