I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGERI’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.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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