I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGERMost stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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 never notice anything.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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