You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
J. D. SALINGERKnow your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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People are always ruining things for you.
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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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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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Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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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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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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