Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGERI’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Did you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
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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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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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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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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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