Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
J. D. SALINGERDo 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.
J. D. SALINGERYou don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
J. D. SALINGERShe was not one for emptying her face of expression.
J. D. SALINGERAlways, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J. D. SALINGERI’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
J. D. SALINGERPeople never notice anything.
J. D. SALINGERThere are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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. SALINGERThat’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SALINGERI just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGERKnow your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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. SALINGERIts really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
J. D. SALINGERI am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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.
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