You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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 hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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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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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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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 can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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