J. D. Salinger on hell
J. D. Salinger78 quotes“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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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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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