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.
J. D. SALINGERI 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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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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.
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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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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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