A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
J. D. SALINGERAlways, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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