Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
J. D. SALINGERIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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. SALINGERIt was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGERWe 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.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGERSometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.
J. D. SALINGERThe worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. SALINGERPeople are always ruining things for you.
J. D. SALINGERPeople always clap for the wrong reasons.
J. D. SALINGERMake sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERI’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
J. D. SALINGERSleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERI hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
J. D. SALINGERYou 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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