I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t hate me because I can’t remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.
J. D. SALINGERI have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGERThat’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGERMake sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SALINGERThat’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGERBut it wasn’t just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
J. D. SALINGERHe said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
J. D. SALINGERThe more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SALINGERMothers are all slightly insane.
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. SALINGERDid you ever get fed up?’ I said. ‘I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?
J. D. SALINGERI have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGERYou think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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