Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERI’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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 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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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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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.
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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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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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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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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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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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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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