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.
J. D. SALINGERWe are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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