We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SALINGERSleep tight, ya morons!
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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People never notice anything.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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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People are always ruining things for you.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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