I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
J. D. SALINGERI can be quite sarcastic when I’m in the mood.
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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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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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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You don’t know how to talk to people you don’t like. Don’t love, really. You can’t live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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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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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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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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It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.
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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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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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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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Don’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.
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