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. SALINGERPeople are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Don’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.
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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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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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.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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