That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
J. D. SALINGERKnow your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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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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Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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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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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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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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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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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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I could happily lie down and die sometimes.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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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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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S’s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.
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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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