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.
J. D. SALINGERDon’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.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
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I don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
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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 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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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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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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