That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGERYou’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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 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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do 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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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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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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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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