Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
J. D. SALINGERI don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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I can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
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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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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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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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I was sixteen then, and I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. Sometimes, I act a lot older than I am–I really do. But people never notice it. People never notice anything.
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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 have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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People are always ruining things for you.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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