I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGERI am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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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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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.
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People never notice anything.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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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’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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