Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERI’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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