I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGERWhere do the ducks go in the winter?
J. D. SALINGERThe more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERI have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGERCertain 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. SALINGERI’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGERAll morons hate it when you call them a moron.
J. D. SALINGERI 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.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERIt’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
J. D. SALINGERYou can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
J. D. SALINGERAnd 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.
J. D. SALINGERThe true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
J. D. SALINGERMost stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
J. D. SALINGERWe don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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