You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERWe don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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 don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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 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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