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.
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 have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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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’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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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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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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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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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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