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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.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I’m not kidding.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Listen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger 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. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
J. D. SalingerJ. D. Salinger I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.
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