The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERI’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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But it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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People never notice anything.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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