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.
J. D. SALINGERCertain 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.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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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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She was not one for emptying her face of expression.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I’d probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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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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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
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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 don’t even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.
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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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I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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