Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGERHow long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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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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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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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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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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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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