All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGERI’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Don’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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 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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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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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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