We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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