I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
J. D. SALINGERSentimentality is loving something more than God does.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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 mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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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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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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