I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
J. D. SALINGERDon’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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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 one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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I love to write and I assure you I write regularly. But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do 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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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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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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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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Certain 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.
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I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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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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