You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
J. D. SALINGERSleep tight, ya morons!
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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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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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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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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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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I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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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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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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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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Where do the ducks go in the winter?
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I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door.
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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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