Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SALINGERGrand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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 true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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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.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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