Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGERI’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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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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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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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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