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. SALINGERSentimentality is loving something more than God does.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People are always ruining things for you.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I 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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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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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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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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