How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
J. D. SALINGERMost stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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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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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn’t stink a little bit of the writer’s pride in having given up his pride.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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There are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We’re all such morons to get so sidetracked.
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Don’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.
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It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.
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I mean they don’t seem able to love us just the way we are. They don’t seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit. They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more.
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
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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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.
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Why’s it so sunny? she repeated. Zooey observed her rather narrowly. I bring the sun wherever I go, buddy, he said.
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