An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
J. D. SALINGERI love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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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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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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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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People never notice anything.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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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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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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