I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.
J. D. SALINGERI can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.
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I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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.
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People always clap for the wrong reasons.
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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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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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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
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I’m up to my ears in unwritten words.
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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew–knew–that we’re carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we’re all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
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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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