Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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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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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
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I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
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Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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