There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
J. D. SALINGERAn artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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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People never notice anything.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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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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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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