But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
J. D. SALINGERKnow your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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People never notice anything.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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