The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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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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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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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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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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