Sleep tight, ya morons!
J. D. SALINGERMost stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
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’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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We 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.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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And 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.
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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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Did 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?
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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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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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