Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
J. D. SALINGERIf a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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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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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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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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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 love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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