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?
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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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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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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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