Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGERIt’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I 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.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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