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.
J. D. SALINGERSentimentality is loving something more than God does.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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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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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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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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 just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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