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.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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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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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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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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