I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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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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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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he 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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