She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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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People never notice anything.
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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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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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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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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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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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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