Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERYou’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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Sometimes 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.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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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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