Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
J. D. SALINGERI hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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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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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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